I left DC before sunrise, extracting myself from the comfort of my dear friend’s home and into another level of the unknown. I had a route to the Blue Ridge mountains; a day long adventure in Shenandoah National Park, which literally is a mountain top driving route traversing due south up, down and around the…
I am grateful for this opportunity to be moved by inspiration, for being more spacious about my movements and for the opportunity to listen and be led as a practice. I am addicted to planning and the thoughts about the future. With all my available will and marrow, I am jumping off the planning treadmill…
On day two, my journey brought me deep into Pennsylvania where quakers took a stand in saying no to slavery. PA was the second state to make slavery illegal, the first being Vermont. I found the A.M.E. Zion Church, home of the “Slave Refugee Society,” established in 1840 as “a means to help those who…
My cat and I just began a sojourn into the deep south; following the Appalachian trail and Underground Railroad routes to a land I have never traveled. I contemplate the endurance and courage it took to be a runaway slave in this country at a time when humans were legally owned, exploited and traded like…
Lay yourself on the slab of openness and wait for the knife of my beauty to gash you so deep with the Beloved’s radiance that you can never recover. —Rumi TILICHO LAKE In this high place it is as simple as this, leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold surface, say the old…