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“Even if you have no faith left, I promise you, you do. All of you do. It’s easier, to stay lost. But when you’re found, when you open your eyes, you can finally see the truth for what it is.”

Love it. I am about halfway through this book and I am determined to keep reading today until I reach the end.
The story of Emma Gatewood’s walk is interspersed with the telling of her early life married to the violent PC Gatewood. Perhaps the struggle and determination it took to survive that marriage lent much to her ability to not only walk the AT but to do it alone. Wow!

I haven’t read many of Mary Oliver’s essays so I thought I would read this. As with her poetry, I find a kindred spirit.
“Doesn’t anybody in the world anymore want to get up in the middle of the night and
sing?”