Many thanks for your comment. The world would be a boring place if everyone agreed on everything.

You are absolutely correct that Peace Pilgrim was in a league of her own–a league that I can only aspire to at this point. Her body and mind were capable of things that I simply am not, but I did my best. With hard work, we could all be as devoted to peace as she was, and I will keep trying.

Peace!

You always had an “out”
You could always call someone and go back you your New York lifestyle

“Peace” never considered that option.
She stayed on the road up until the day she died.

Sure you had fun meeting people on your spring fling.

Now you are back in New York in your warm apartment.

You are back at your career.

You never had to be concerned about money because you had that covered.
you always had a “back up play.”

The orginator or the Peace Pigram didn’t have a back up plan.

The walk was her life!!

Peace will NEVER happen as long as people like you “toy” with what this wonderful woman started.
She dedicated HER LIFE to world peace.

You toyed with it for a few months to give yourself your “5 minutes of fame”.

You really trashed her walk when you went back to the “Safety” of your New York lifestyle.

You missed the whole point of the walk.

People fed you and gave you a warm place to sleep.
They gave you friendship.

What more did you want?

Sorry I didn’t get back quickly. Email is really a faster way to reach me since I don’t login to the blog often…

I didn’t have to go long without food, not even as long as Peace Pilgrim.

-peace

That loan you received from the Peace Abbey was such a wonderful and trusting gesture. I love it that instead of treating that physical link- that piece of cloth that was connected to Peace- with attachment or protectiveness which would have centered on an impermanent “vessel” and a sweater, the fellow that freely loaned it in effect emulated what she embodied concerning human relations in the here and now.

Please tell me, did the Abbey survive?

On a different note, I seem to recall that the longest Peace ever went without food was four days. Just out of curiosity and as a sort of litmus test for the current general state of our countrymen (and women), would you mind telling me the maximum number of days you were allowed to go without sustenance?

I meant to thank you in the comment I left prior to this one, but forgot. So, thank you for the actions you’ve taken, and will take, on behalf of all of us.

I would enjoy and value hearing from you once I take to the road again in a couple weeks.

In any event, may you be well, and go with care. -f

I’m actually in New York City. I’m done walking now and going to graduate school here.

Fellow, good luck on your walk. The best advice I can give you, based on my own experience, is to try not to think too much. If you’re walking, just walk. I spent far too much of my walking time overthinking–it’s an easy thing to do if you’ve got that much time on your hands.

-Peace

I am about to restart a walk across the country myself. I walked from NYC to mid-Ohio and ran smack dab into myself and an injured foot. That was a few months back. I’m in the process of revamping the whole thing and am busing to L.A. tomorrow to shortly turn around and attempt to walk back to New York.

I’ve dubbed myself fellow human which is the only name I’ve given out for about a year now. Most people call me fellow.

By the way, one of the issues I struggle with concerning the project I speak of is a tendency to expand and wander in my writings. Also the site is not structurally well at the moment, so if you, or anybody else, go/goes there just please understand that it’s going to be getting an overhaul that will hopefully result in it being more succinct, etc.

So, I’d really like to know, where are you?