Countdown

There is enough for all. The Earth is a generous mother. She will provide, in plentiful abundance, food for all her children, if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
William Bourke Cockran as quoted by Winston Churchill in Iron Curtain speech, Fulton, Missouri 1946

It's time for another three peaks walk. This time the Yorkshire Three Peaks on June 27. Unfit and overweight, I have decided to walk 500 km in practice and today is the start of the countdown.

I read the Cockran/Churchill quote in the Irish Times at breakfast. Which gave me a theme for the first walk. I thought I'd start by taking advantage of an increasingly rare privilege and walk past the homes of my male antecedents. I live near where three generations have lived over the last 130 years. The link, in my head at least, is that we should be striving to improve the world for those who follow. Most of my antecedents did that. And knowing where you came from is a privilege that springs from the dedications of those others. This seems implicit in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Walking to raise money for Care International is another method. Helping me raise money does it too. And if we help Care, we help raise people towards self-actualisation. Globally. There is indeed enough for all.


14.5 km today. Just 485.5 km to go.