I was so touched on Sunday when our first Interfaith Peace Walk was offered on a rainy February day - 75 folks turned out to walk silently for peace.

Here's a video of us starting out from Zuanich Park (hear the rain?).

Walking steadily and mindfully in silence with the occasional ringing of a mindfulness bell we worked our way up to the Peace and Reconciliation Arch behind the library where a few of us offered brief reflections and we sang the Sutra on Loving Kindness together.

A deeply moving event and we're working on offering another in-town walk on Sunday February 15th in the early afternoon. One of our inspirations was the group of Thai Buddhist Monks making their way from their home monastery in Texas to Washington, D.C. - walking for peace. (Here is one of many videos about them posted online). And I was also moved by a similar effort from a group out of Buddha Eye Temple in Oregon a few months earlier (Liberty Walks).

As I shared with the group before we set out, Thich Nhat Hanh once said, "Some people think it's a miracle to walk on water, or it's a miracle to walk on air. The true miracle is walking on the Earth."

In a time when it's so hard to know what to do and so many of us are doing our best to be engaged, I'm so happy to be supporting the inclusion of mindful walking for peace.