num_pages: 240
description: A transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves each other and nature itself.In 2010 Jonathon Stalls and his blue-heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States depending upon each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays Stalls explores walking as waking up: how a cross-country journey through the family farms of West Virginia the deep freedom of Nevadas High desert and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreams--and opened new avenues for renewal connection and change.While most of us wont walk or roll across the country the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people land and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us. He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine. He confronts the systemic racism classism and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through. And he invites readers to become awakened activists to begin healing our cultures profound separation from the natural world.WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody not just know and study their way through complex themes that live in each chapter: vulnerability human dignity presence mystery and resistance. With dedicated practices--like connecting to Earth stewardship moving into vulnerability and walking and rolling with intention--Stalls WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down look around and engage with the world in front of us. It awakens us to what we miss when were driving by flying over and rushing past what surrounds us. Its an invitation to move to connect to participate deeply in the world--and to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth.
language: English
title: WALK: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles per Hour
publisher: North Atlantic Books