june walk update — Susan Raffo

For the next ten months or so, my posts are mostly all about my walk across Turtle Island. You can see more detailed information and regular posts through my Instagram and Facebook account with details about the walk on my website.

June 11th, 2024

This is an update that covers a lot of the last month. I am noticing that I prefer to work on these longer updates when I am in a place with a computer — aka a library. This means I am in Cortland, NY and took a day off before heading to Ithaca just so that I could chill with this computer. I will likely say this every single time that I send one of these but my GOD — free public libraries. Please PLEASE may they continue.

This is a long update and it’s broken down like this: practical reflection about the last month including my upcoming route, a reflection on fear and the wild dark forest and books I’ve been privileged to review.

Practical reflection

A lot has happened over the last month — in the broader world, in your world, and with this walk. My family gathered in NYC to celebrate our daughter’s graduation from college and then, shortly after heading back to Massachusetts to restart the walk, I got the flu. Or I think it was the flu. It wasn’t COVID as the trail of tests proved. Five tests from three different companies because I was…