Keep Your Edges Wild

Joy Holt
Joy Holt
Sep 8, 2018 · 5 min read

I recently took a pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland. It is something I have had in my heart to do for 5 years when I first heard about the island. A pilgrimage is often defined as going to seek a religious experience or awakening. That is not the language that fits my orientation around this type of journey. Maybe it’s the word religion that I find off putting as it has come to carry a connotation of rules and rigidity that is the very opposite of the expansive nature of pilgrimage. I define the trip as going away in search of a quiet place where your bones, cells, mind, and heart can rest. To be away from what is…

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