a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand