[ THE GREAT WALK ]
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In Aboriginal Australian philosophy, the land is sung into existence. The Songlines—invisible pathways across the continent—are the footprints of the ancestors, who walked and sang the world into being. To walk a path is to know it, to name it, to bring it into meaning.
And then... I walked, and kept on walking—between the West and the East, the North and the South. Between worlds and cultures, and so... I became one with them. |
Reaching the Km 100 milestone on the Camino de Santiago, I leave a shell from my mother's collection. She walked with me in spirit · 2025
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"By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history." — Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking |
THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO · Spain · 2025
"Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet." — Thich Nhat Hanh
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THE GREAT WALL · China · 2018
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"The land is alive, the rivers are alive, the Country is alive, because it holds memory." — Dr Anne Poelina, Nyikina Warrwa Elder
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SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE · Australia · 2008
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I have completed a significant number of pilgrimages and walks at some of the most sacred, UNSECO World Heritage sites: Rila Monastery, Bulgaria · Tasmanian Wilderness Heritage Area, Australia · West Norwegian Fjords, Norway · Banks of the Seine, Paris-France · Kew Gardens, London, UK · Borobudur, Indonesia · Kathmandu Valley, Nepal · Angkor Wat, Camobodia · The Eternal City, Rome-Italy · Monserrat Monastery, Spain · Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia · The Great Wall, China · The Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, Japan.
It has been the greatest privilege of my life to walk the earth and be received by its many worlds. Each place asked nothing of me but to arrive in peace and make memories. |
