A devotional...

...of sorts.

the other day i was hungover. something compelled me to drive to the mountains in north georgia with a book, a gallon of water, and a cup of coffee.

i climbed to the top of a small mountain (borderline hill). i read a page that had been folded for me. i took off most of my clothes and lay down in the dirt with the ants and i thought about what i had read. it was as close to a religious experience as i have had in a very long time. this is what the passage marked on the page i mentioned said:

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the yough and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body"
-walt whitman

that was a very nice thing that i did.

-kevelation

ps. thanks, d.