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Re: [at-l] another AT poem

Read this in the middle of a very hectic day and was moved and humbled by
its content.
Any other information on "Storyteller"?

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> From: owen <owen@dc.ametsoc.org>
> To: at-l-digest@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: [at-l] another AT poem
> Date: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 8:35 AM
> 
> Yesterdays postings inspired me to look through my journal from my
thru-hike
> to find a poem that I had copied out of a register.  It was written by
> Storyteller in Laurel Fork Shelter in April of 1988.
> 
> You may be a troubadour, seraching for a rhymme
> You may be a speed hiker trying to make some time
> Maybe you're a wanderer, someone who likes to roam
> or maybe you're a pilgrim who makes the woods their home
> So many ways to walk the days and I like every one
> May you find the peace within yourself when the walkings's done
> May you wake up in the morning with a blue sky and a sun
> May you hoist your pack upon your back and walk until the day is done
> May your soul unfold before you like the trail beneath your feet
> and may you share the thread of happiness with everyone you meet
> May you dance across the mountaintops, roll down like a crystal stream
> May you always find the white blaze
> May you always reach your dreams
> May your heart be warmed by memories and find shelter from the pain
> May you grow beneath the sunshine and blossom with the rain
> --Storyteller
> 
> and one more:
> 
> Mountains walk and mountains are moving.  Those who do not understand
this,
> do not understand the nature of their own walking. 
> 	Dogen (Mountains and Rivers Sutra)
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