Announcing the serial posting of The Expedition: Walk to Waken the Nation by Ann Cognito

While Ann and Mr. Myrtle Sir overwinter in a camp with limited connectivity, It’s going to be winter story telling time here on the Climate Emergency Sailboat blog 🙂 Section by section, in serial form, please enjoy and share this posting of Ann’s at yet unpublished book in which she recounts her Cross-Canada walk of 2019-2020.

Here are the dedications at the start of the book:

For Jesse and Mr Myrtle Sir, my whys… … and for every single person who was and is part of it…

…and for John, who taught me that life is made of stories; you have to live them to find out what happens, and write your way out of your own plot twists.

This happened.

Names might be changed, conversations paraphrased, landmarks misplaced, etc… my memory is far from perfect, and there’s more to tell than a book can hold, but the content and intent are truth.

Another world is not only possible, it is just around the corner – on a quiet day,
I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with the soles of your feet
Thich Nhat Hanh