2019 … An apparent lack of Way
While I knew going in that the walking was probably going to be much more difficult in the United States, I was in no way properly prepared for just how uncomfortable (and at many times downright scary) walking along America’s often shoulder-less highways proved to be …
“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even real genius; and yet if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. Of course, when you are in the midst of the journey, there’s really no way of knowing which of the two you are treading. How fortunate we all are, then, that it is we and we alone who gets to judge both our mastery & our madness.” ~ inspired by Hilary Austen
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