HeyJaredUphill Road
Pilgrimage, pilgrims, and the landscapes that carry them onward
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The Poet’s Gift (opens the original)
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Wendell Berry, Pilgrim (opens the original)
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“If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line - starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven. Or you could take the King’s Highway past the appropriately named dangers, toils, and snares, and finally cross the River of Death and enter the Celestial City. But that is not the way I have done it, so far. I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what
Passenger Pigeon: An Extinction Meditation (opens the original)
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Forest Martyrs: A Veneration of Trees (opens the original)
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Trees and forests have a deep, long relationship with the practice of pilgrimage. Sometimes specific trees are the focus such as Estonia’s Ilumäe Hiieniinepuu or an entire forested landscape can be a sacred destination. From the veneration of trees come the great mythologies and religious motifs of the Tree of Life, a conceptual mappi mundi of the human pilgrimage through life and creation. In a Tree of Life scenario, the destruction of a grove of 300-year-old old Arizona Freemont Cottonwoods to
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