A Few More Walks...

From Marcelene Alexander (Portland):
Dear Stuart, Suzanne Hryniw, Dennis Judd and myself put on our Fear-No-More World WALK body banners and did a Fear-No-More World WALK on Sunday at the Thomas McCall Waterfront Park in Portland. There were thousands of people there participating in a music festival over the entire Fourth weekend. One gentleman approached me and asked what it was about, saying he had had an idea a number of years ago to start a walk going half way around the world - but never followed through with it. I explained briefly and gave him a card with the web sites on it. This is our fourth month walking. The first walk we did at Reed College Canyon, the next walk was at Natural State Park right in Portland out on the Terwilliger Curves, the next walk was done by myself in Vancouver, BC and also in Portland where I walked about 27 blocks of my neighborhood, and then this walk at the McCall Park. So , humble as it is, we are walking for Fear-No-More World - hopefully we will get more organized and prepared as we go along.

From Margot S. Janeway (Lopez Island, Washington):
A couple of us on Lopez Island went on a four mile walk along a beach on the western side of the Island. For me it was a lovely walk of contemplation, and consideration of the state of the world and the great need of human beings to become aligned to a Divine process that we may live in harmony with all beings and the earth itself.

From Roslyn Esler (Queensland, Australia):
Hi Stuart, I am walking - and talking with dogs I meet along the way - walking with Monty.
I may not do it monthly - I try to do it daily or a few times a week and for only 30 minutes but it all helps.

From Loretta Sheehan (New Hampshire):
I walked a pine- needled path along a peaceful lake, then took a logging road into deep woods. More or less in that hour…. A dragonfly (the oldest living creature on the earth…they were here
300 million years ago!) landed on my hand and basked in the sun, fearlessly. A damselfly
and her mate let me watch as she laid eggs in a hole in a tree stump…my head was about 5 inches from them! I read that these beautiful insects are "very wary, have big eyes, and are hard to approach", but they, too, were fearless of me. In blessing mode, I saw a giant hornet, robins, chipmunks, butterflies, busy woodpeckers, ants, squirrels, Daddy-long-legs running into the woods, huge flock of starlings, and heard the exquisitely sweet call of the wood thrush. The parallel to your "dead, black cow" was an archery range I came across, where hunters were practicing with crossbows on targets and deer statues!! Ugh!! The pain & death intruded on my walk, too….and I was required to bless all hunters and hunted, praying that FearNoMore would soften the hunters' hearts, and change their desire to hunt for sport. Although mosquitoes tried to bite me all day, they were mostly brushed away, or repelled with spray…none were killed. The grand finale to the FNMZoo Walk, largely centered around small and tiny animals, came that night….as magical lightning bugs appeared in the darkened woods and bog… erratic living, moving lights…sending a message to hopeful mates….here I am! Then, one was on the outside of our blue tent in the dark, and could be seen from inside…..lighting up again and again!…a tiny hello in response to the Fear-No-More Blessing….no doubt.