Week Six: June 16 - June 22, 2019

With family, comes compassion, with compassion comes learning, with learning comes living, and with life comes living.

 

The legacy, what you do every day, what you teach, and pass on to children, knowing they are watching and learning, as your actions are now determining a future reaction. Is this the legacy you want to leave behind?

 

As day 29 of walking comes to life, being enticed by the beauty of Mother Nature.The generosity of those who surrounded us, the greatest gift we can give another person is the gift of time.

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When we began planning this walk, we were unsure as to how it would start and transpire. As the days began, then rolling into nights and life events and challenges emerged, we knew we would have to make some significant sacrifices. The sacrifices are minuscule in comparison to the message that needs to be shared.

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The journey of the "Community Compassion Walk" began as a grassroots effort to bring additional awareness about community compassion, practices, processes, and ideas to explore what currently exists. To share thoughts, to enhance approaches from Trauma-informed approaches, Suicide Awareness /Prevention, Violence against People and Mental Health/Wellness, Homelessness, Grief/ Mourning, and to Addiction in our communities.

 

To read words, to reflect where we started from, the experiences along the way, the people we met and those we have become reacquainted with.  As every step is taken, it is with purpose. Not just to reach the destination, as we know, the hardest journey taken begins with the first step. This has been a communal effort, for each step taken was with determination. "Halting the nay and proving the yay!"