Remember when your pop, or maybe a coach, told you to, “walk it off,” when you got hurt playing around?
Chris Bailey has taken that idea to heart at a much deeper level. On a foot journey from California to New York, the 33-year-old free spirit is literally walking away from a past of poor choices and pain. A year ago, he was not so free.
Addicted to methamphetamine and alcohol, alone in a park homeless with nothing left, one night a police street sweep found him running away in a panic. In the dark, Chris fell over an embankment, bleeding profusely and fading in and out of consciousness.
He remembers asking God, How did I end up here and how am I going to get out? How am I going to get free?
I saw him walking on 285 in Turkey Creek Canyon and wondered what his story was; I'm so glad he stopped in to chat with Emily! Thank you for this uplifting story!
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
