“When I walk,” she said vibrantly, “there is no tomorrow. Yesterday is gone … there is only here, now. I listen to the forest speak, the mountains, the water. I hear their voices. Trees become family. Rocks become living beings that you know, and you’re happy to see.” Walking has also instilled in her a new sense of what it means to be resilient. “I know without a doubt that I can breathe through anything, every single difficult thing that surfaces. In whatever headspace that may come to me in my day … I can sit, and I can write, I can draw, I can garden, I can do the dishes. I can bring
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