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IntrinsicPaths

I consider myself a Walking Artist. I spent 242 days walking across the United States in 2010 and have continued to move alongside thousands of people for thousands of miles. My artwork currently moves in the realms of pen and ink drawing, writing and poetry, storytelling with the Pedestrian Dignity campaign, economic and racial justice organizing, meditative practices, and creating/scouting long-distance walking routes.

I am LGBTQIA2S+/gay, Founded Walk2Connect in 2012, and attended the Living School for Action and Contemplation from 2015-2017.

My book, WALK - Slow Down, Wake up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour with North Atlantic Books is now available nearly everywhere books are sold!
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corpse road

Also known as corpse way, coffin route, coffin road, coffin path, churchway path, bier road, burial road, lyke-way or lych-way. “Now is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide” – Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. A path used in medieval times to take the dead from a remote parish to the ‘mother’ church for burial. Coffin rests or wayside crosses lined the route of many where the procession would stop for a while to sing a hymn or say a prayer. There was a strong belief that once a body was taken over a field or fell that route would forever be a public footpath which may explain why so many corpse roads survive today as public footpaths. They are known through the UK.

Added by Alan Cleaver

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