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A transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves each other and nature itself
In 2010 Jonathon Stalls and his blueheeler husky mix began their 242day walk across the United States depending upon each other and the kindness of strangers along the way In this collection of essays Stalls explores walking as waking up how a crosscountry journey through the family farms of West Virginia the deep freedom of Nevadas High desert and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreamsand opened new avenues for renewal connection and change
While most of us wont walk or roll across the country the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people land and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine He confronts the systemic racism classism and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through And he invites readers to become awakened activists to begin healing our cultures profound separation from the natural world
WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody not just know and study their way through complex themes that live in each chapter vulnerability human dignity presence mystery and resistance With dedicated practiceslike connecting to Earth stewardship moving into vulnerability and walking and rolling with intentionStalls WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down look around and engage with the world in front of us It awakens us to what we miss when were driving by flying over and rushing past what surrounds us Its an invitation to move to connect to participate deeply in the worldand to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth
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