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Walk : slow down, wake up, and connect at 1-3 miles per hour / Jonathon Stalls.

by Stalls, Jonathon, 1982-

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North Atlantic Books, 2022.

Walking -- Psychological aspects.

American essays -- 21st century.

Essays -- 21st century.

9781623176952 (pbk.)

xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"Inclusive stories and practices" --Cover.

Jonathon Stalls is an artist, social entrepreneur, and advocate for social, economic, racial, and LGBTQ+ justice. Stalls is the founder of two organizations, Intrinsic Paths and Walk2Connect.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves, each other, and nature. 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 Nevada’s 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 won’t 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 culture’s profound separation from the natural world.

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