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Postcards from the Road: Marin Headlands, Muir & Merton

Postcards from the Road: Marin Headlands, Muir & Merton

This monastic is seeking quiet

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Apr 14, 2021
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Samwise hanging with John Muir.

We left San Francisco a day earlier than I had planned. This has been the trend for us in each of the cities we’ve visited. It proves what I already knew—we three bumpkins need simpler, less crowded places.

John Muir wrote, “Civilized man chokes his soul.”

I get it.

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