The Time Has Come

I have before me this wonderful pilgrimage - full of nature and God.

But to press forward, I also have to leave behind some things:

I have to leave with my brother in Hospice.

My friend in the hospital.

My friends with whom I frolic - here and afar.

The job I dearly love.

Email.

My sorrows and my losses.

All of these people and these events and have gotten me here today - ready to walk to the end of the earth.

You're all in my pocket (I'd put you in the pack, but then you'd be on my shoulders and that would be a major bummer).