#longest walk

[patryankey]

Wow, this is awesome.

[misschar1]

Most perfect weimaraner😩

[to-escape-the-labyrinth]

The longest walk

I regret my choice ;  It hurts letting go,

You heard it in my voice ; I’m sure you know.

Passing the gate; looking back at you,

I put my trust in faith, I hope you do too.

  I am walking the longest walk,

Waiting for your heart to talk.

  (I do not own this poem. I happened to see it somewhere ages back and I did really like it.)

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[safetybuzzed]

"The longest walk a parent can make is up a short flight of stairs to their child’s bedroom, to sit on the edge of the bed and say, ‘Honey, you can’t play on the Little League team this year…I lost my job.’ My dad made that walk. Think of how many parents out there have made some version of this walk."

-Vice President Joe Biden

This was posted by someone else (see source), but I couldn't comment because it was set in quote format. This absolutely broke my heart and I can't imagine being in that situation. For some reason, this scenario really got to me.

[indians-vs-cowboys]

Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, stood in front of the Washington Monument in Washington DC on Wednesday, June 29th, 2011, the day after completing his walk across America to raise awareness about the unnaturally high incidence of diabetes among indigenous people in the United States. Due to the destruction of traditional diets and lifestyles indigenous populations in euro-colonized areas around the world suffer from much higher incidence of diabetes than the white settler populations. In the United States indigenous people are more than twice as likely as white people to have diabetes. "In 2001, the age-standardised prevalence of self-reported diabetes among Indigenous Australians was 11% compared with 3% among the non-Indigenous population." Rates of diabetes are increasing worldwide and are associated with urbanization and a "western-style" diet. VIDEO (Photo via Censored News)

[indians-vs-cowboys]

Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, arrived at the US Capitol on Tuesday afternoon, June 28, 2011, after walking across America to raise awareness about the unnaturally high incidence of diabetes among indigenous people in the United States. Due to the destruction of traditional diets and lifestyles indigenous populations in euro-colonized areas around the world suffer from much higher incidence of diabetes than the white settler populations. In the United States indigenous people are more than twice as likely as white people to have diabetes. "In 2001, the age-standardised prevalence of self-reported diabetes among Indigenous Australians was 11% compared with 3% among the non-Indigenous population." Rates of diabetes are increasing worldwide and are associated with urbanization and a "western-style" diet. VIDEO (Photo via Censored News)

[athensr-blog]

Throughout the past few days, Athens County motorists may have felt guilty passing a group of people walking eastward along Route 50. It’s alright — they would rather walk.

Christopher Francisco and his friends from the Navajo Nation have walked roughly 4,500 miles from Portland, Ore., across the northern United States as a part of the Longest Walk 3, a nationwide effort by Native Americans to raise awareness about diabetes and change unhealthy eating habits across the continent.

“It’s been a very difficult journey,” Francisco said on Monday.

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[indians-vs-cowboys]

April 2011, Eagle Butte, Cheyenne River Lakota land, South Dakota, during the Longest Walk 3 northern route. Indigenous North American activists are walking across the country by two simultaneous routes (see: link) to raise awareness about the unnaturally high incidence of diabetes among indigenous people in the United States. Due to the destruction of traditional diets and lifestyles indigenous populations in euro-colonized areas around the world suffer from much higher incidence of diabetes than the white settler populations. In the United States indigenous people are more than twice as likely as white people to have diabetes. "In 2001, the age-standardised prevalence of self-reported diabetes among Indigenous Australians was 11% compared with 3% among the non-Indigenous population." Rates of diabetes are increasing worldwide and are associated with urbanization and a "western-style" diet. (Photo by Chris Francisco via Censored News) VIDEO