WALK | Free Book
In 2010, Jonathon Stalls and his blue heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States, relying on each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays, Stalls explores walking as waking up: how a cross-country journey through the family farms of West Virginia, the deep freedom of Nevada’s High desert, and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreams—and opened new avenues for renewal, connection, and change.
While most of us won’t walk or roll across the country, the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people, land, and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us. He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man, offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine. He confronts the systemic racism, classism, and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through. And he invites readers to become awakened activists, to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world.
WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody, not just know and study, their way through complex themes that live in each chapter: vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance. With dedicated practices—like connecting to Earth stewardship, moving into vulnerability, and walking and rolling with intention—Stalls’ WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down, look around, and engage with the world in front of us. It awakens us to what we miss when we’re driving by, flying over, and rushing past what surrounds us. It’s an invitation to move, to connect, to participate deeply in the world—and to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth.
In The Press
"With a bold and honest voice, Jonathon Stalls invites us to walk with
him across America. It is an important journey through a landscape of
gender, equity, and discovery. In each meeting we learn who we are and
who we might become. From sea to sea there are mountains with sticky
spines, and deserts filled with people…and solitude."
—John
Francis, PhD, author of
Planetwalker: Seventeen Years of Silence. Twenty-Two Years of
Walking.
“WALK is a powerful invitation that shows us not
just the gifts of walking, but what it means to be fully alive....He
reminds us what it means to live with a whole heart, even in the midst
of our darkest times, and how walking as an individual and community
act—as a fundamental human right—can repair our spirits along with our
minds, bodies, and communities.”
—Antonia Malchik, author of
A Walking Life
“Jonathon and I have been walking and
talking together for years. We walk and talk about strategies to
create more walkable places, management approaches, dogs, love,
relationships—everything....This book captures what Jonathon has given
me over our hundreds of miles together: listen to your inner wisdom,
lean into connections, and embrace your failures as a great teaching
tool. WALK is not just a book. It’s designed to take its
readers on a meditative journey to enable us to open our eyes to
ourselves and each other.”
—Lynn Richards, senior VP of policy
and implementation at Blue Zones
“Stalls is an important
walking activist and his book recounts the adventure of a
lifetime.”
—Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way
“This book is for all of us who are ready to embark on a
journey of practice toward walking and rolling to connect, to build
relationships with ourselves and our people, and with intention to
build trusting, whole, and full lives....Whether it is a journey to
our mailboxes or the entire length of the continent—this book gives us
tools to practice walking and movement to heal, grow, love, nurture,
explore, adventure, fight, dance, and become our full human selves.
Life at 1–3 mph is how we were intended to experience our world. We
must move more this way to feel more and more alive.”
—Teresa
Martinez, cofounder and executive director of the Continental Divide
Trail Coalition
“I’ve spent the last ten years of my life
going on walks with Jonathon Stalls, so I am delighted that in WALK
more people get to experience his warmth and brilliance too. May you
feel what I do after every walk with him: more deeply and
uncomplicatedly human.”
—Nadia Bolz-Weber, three-time
New York Times bestselling author
“In 2010, on a
journey of self healing, Jonathon Stalls set out to walk
coast-to-coast across the United States. That defining experience, and
years of boot-level community work since, has honed his book into a
trail guide to human connectivity—a veritable map of the heart.”
—Paul
Salopek, Out of Eden Walk
“Jonathon’s personal journey is
the starting point of a robust community journey, accompanied by
heaping helpings of warmth, empathy, compassion, and insight.”
—Michael
McGinn, executive director of America Walks and former Seattle Mayor
- Title: WALK | Free Book
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