60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday: When Is the Trail Not a Trail?

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Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga.  

These past 9 months or so have felt like the dark night of the soul, over and over and over again. Think the movie Groundhog Day. If this is a crisis of faith, I would say, how do I find the way out? Where is the trail? But, what if there’s another way? As in this poem by Gary Snyder:  

The Trail Is Not a Trail

“I drove down the Freeway

And turned off at an exit

And went along a highway

Til it came to a side-road

Drove up the side-road

Til it turned to a dirt road

Full of bumps, and stopped.

Walked up a trail

But the trail got rough

And it faded away—

Out in the open,

Everywhere to go.”  ["The Trail Is Not a Trail" by Gary Snyder, from Left Out in the Rain. © North Point Press, 1986.] 

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Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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