What do you think about this path?
Not very impressive is it? Not sure it would catch your attention at all if you stumbled across it. But then what about this sign on the wall telling you a little bit about this path, the “Via Aurelia” (nice name, huh?)
Now, I’m sure that’s not a complete listing of all the famous people who have walked along this very path, but even knowing that Napoleon, Emperor Charles V, Macchiavelli and Catherine of Siena, (not to mention the various Popes!), walked along here completely changes it doesn’t it?
And I’m sure that if you were to read some of the stories about where these people were coming from and where they were going to, then this little, apparently unimpressive little path, would take on another quality altogether.
Heroes Not Zombies 
Awesome, Its all about perspective. I like that. Cheers Dan
I love it Bob, even before you showed us whose feet wandered its clay. Thank you 🙂
Below: a poem that wrote itself tonight from another story; from a different path.?! xxx
TWO STEPS REMOVED
Two steps removed
straddling sidebands
in-between worlds
beyond time
in harmony with the holy dust
The first
a wide side-step
to the left of the story –
into the vantage point of the watchful eye
And then another…
assigned by the faith of journeys
surrendering these quiet wings –
for the breath that holds her flight
You know, there’s a bizarre bliss on the breeze
a mindful melancholy in the air
and a delicious reverence –
for the cadence of things
And on the wind, a collaboration appears, of:
no past
no future
no thing
all, disappearing into the full spectrum of eternity –
that lands on my doorstep
and I ponder, whose eyes… have these become..!
Written by Brian McAlorum