I am thankful to the immense generosity that has been shown to me by human beings across this planet. Over the last seven years of travel, people of widely diverse cultures and beliefs have welcomed me into their towns, their homes, and sometimes into their lives. I have been awed and humbled by their warmth and hopitality and this feeling continues on my present journey.
I am grateful to my Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist Brothers and Sisters for giving me insights into their culture and their day-to-day lives and for showing me many other ways to view the world. Because of them I can see that different paths to the same mountain make my world a richer place. I am thankful for the days that I have walked to a village that houses a Mosque, a Hindu Shrine and Buddhist Stuppa.
I am eternally thankful for the colors, tastes, sights and smells of the world, for the sublime pleasure of discovering a new food, a new flavor, a new fruit at a market stall. For me, these pleasures of the senses are the warp and weave of the tapestry of life. My eternal gratitude goes out to all of those who have introduced me to these new wonders.
I am hopeful and happy that there are still places in the world where a traveler can find a slow train, a slow boat, or a ride in the back of a pickup on a rice sack and then a simple guesthouse at the end of the day's journey.
I am thankful for each new horizon, each new Human Being greeted, each greeting recieved, each meal shared, each smile exchanged. Most of all I am thankful for the Journey itself, complete with all of the joys and hardships. I am blessed and I recognize this every step of the way.
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