Walking on the Wild Side of the Big Sur
Photo Links:
Photo Set
Joan's Photo Set
Other related links:
Among the Wonderful (Stacy's website and more)
Ojai Foundation (where Adam works)
Isabel's website
Charlie's website
Gesine's website
Michael's Hike
Judi's website
John Muir: Nature's Visionary by Gretel Ehrlich
Poem from our last session:
What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte
Gratitude to all of you who made the journey to walk on the wild side... may you saunter reverently and joyfully wherever you may be.
John Muir on Hiking
"Hiking - I don't
like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the
mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?'
It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on
pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through
which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la
sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as
sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land,
and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through
them."
~ John Muir, quoted by Albert Palmer in A Parable of Sauntering
Wildly,
