Tuesday,
August 9th, 2016
Chicago,
Illinois
Now
That This Half Is Over
About
the sweetest thing I experienced from this stretch of the U.S. walk was to
receive a letter from my spiritual brother, who’s also a monk—Jayadvaita
Swami. The words were encouraging.
“Well,
you’re doing the healthiest thing in the world and making a valuable spiritual
contribution by your example. Happy
walking and happy chanting.”
I’ve
calculated to have just completed 1,232 miles or 1982.7 kilometres from Butler,
Pennsylvania to Seward, Nebraska.
There’s another 1,594 miles to go to make it to San Francisco. For now, I’ll hold it as a dream until I
return, in the spring of 2017, to exercise the second half of the U.S.A.
It
was today that I sat for nine hours in a meeting, with minor breaks at
different times. The feet hardly did any
work. It’s awkward, and it doesn’t make
for great sleeping conditions in the night.
At
6:30 p.m. Praharana, a godsister from Canada, and I, delivered a talk on youth
empowerment. Some of the highlights were
“when we became renunciates we were young,” (average age of people joining in
the early 70’s was anywhere from 18-24), and “take responsibility when you’re
young.” And finally, we spoke about
Krishna appearing ‘young’ in His pastimes.
His childhood and youth are to be adored.
May
the Source be with you!
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