Day 145k: Second-best at Best … (September 21, 2019)
I then made it past the community of Cedar Bluff and was once again getting exceedingly thirsty (with no restaurants or gas stations in sight) when I came upon a local Porsche dealership. Just imagine their employees’ surprise when a Peace Pilgrim entered their showrrom that day – a Peace Pilgrim who had walked all the way from Stuttgart, Germany; the very home of Porsche itself! Unfortunately, oddly enough, none of them present there that day were even remotely as impressed as I was by this objectively amazing happenstance, and I departed from their presence without even receiving a single offer of water for my efforts … :O
“I was recently told that I was a liar when I mentioned to somebody that I had walked down the spine of the Andes. I mean, almost every Spaniard in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries had done the same. And yet the idea that somebody today could just walk like that – how preposterous! We can all jog perhaps in the morning, but we don’t ever really walk anywhere. In truth, our world has become essentially inaccessible because we choose drive whenever we travel there … Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can either illuminate our paths or darken our ways. The choice is always ours, and it is a choice we must every day make … And in making said choice, we would all do well indeed to remember that any true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection; that any thing of supposed beauty pales fully when compared to kindness and love.” ~ inspired by Ivan Ilich, Maya Angeloou & Michelangelo
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