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MAKE LAUGHTER THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN STRANGERS ~

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Sometimes people who have nothing have everything they need. Near a North Sea oil port, I came face to face with unrehearsed survival. Speed walking through a gritty quarter of Hull, England, I nearly tripped over a rhetorically blessed drifter, living in an urban lean-to, adrift in reverie. After sharing a few canned ales, our conversation swayed to the contents of his tattered olive rucksack. As he fished each item out, he surrendered multi-colored histories […]

FEEL THE STRENGTH OF THE LABOR OF LOVE ~

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What a difference a walk makes. Long-distance walking veterans, my father and I tackled the renowned 240-mile, coast-to-coast trek across Northern England’s rugged terrain in 1996. Two years later, shortly after dad endured life-saving surgery, we tackled Offa’s Dyke, a 200-mile long wall built in the eighth century to keep the Welsh on their side of that giant fence. On our third walk across the Commonwealth, my father, then 76, and I rambled the width […]