"Virtual Walkers" Wanted

Lee’s Summit, Missouri

July 19, 2011

2:14 p.m.

“Virtual Walkers” Wanted

“Just as many hands make light work, many feet abbreviate the journey”

                                                                           -- Doris and Viveka Davis

We expected this:  summer heat and humidity making our walk more challenging in the midwest.  For the past two months traveling through Kansas and into western Missouri, temperatures have often been over 100 degrees.  Nevertheless, we have been holding true to our promise to walk a total of 11.1 miles a day 5 days a week.  For us this means that two people walking 5.5 miles are the same as one person walking 11.1 miles.  In this manner we have been accepting the help of friends who have walked with us.  

Most of these have walked beside us, enhancing the walking time with engaging conversation.  You might call them fellow travelers.  But some of these have been logging their miles on their own, in remote locations -- we call them “Virtual Walkers.”  They are letting us know that they are walking with purpose and intention in support of a specific cause or idea. 

We absolutely love it when people -- men AND women -- e-mail us at walkdoriswalk@gmail.com and let us know they are walking.  This is the way we are literally gathering WO-MEN-tum.  By the time we arrive in Washington, D.C. in September, we expect we will have many more in our ranks, both literal and virtual.

Here are a few of their names as best we can recall.

Zachary in Needles, AZ

Ivory in Yuma, AZ

Kaeylarae in Sedona, AZ

Geneva in Sedona, AZ

Celeste in Sedona, AZ

Marilyn in Sedona, AZ

Nancy in Sedona, AZ

Uqualla in Sedona, AZ

Ken in Sedona, AZ

Dan in Sedona, AZ

Sarb Nam (and other Sikh women) in Espanola, NM

Guru Kiren in Espanola, NM

Harimander in Espanola, NM

Rahmaneh in Santa Fe, NM

Cameron in Santa Fe, NM

Annie in Santa Fe, NM

Bashira in Santa Fe, NM

Sulis in Santa Fe, NM

Asharaya and Issael in Santa Fe, NM

“Mudman” in Abiquiu, NM

Leah in Santa Fe, NM

Carol in Santa Fe, NM

Edwin in Santa Fe, NM

Sulis at Lama Foundation, NM

Marty G in Kinsley, KS

Marty P in Kinsley, KS

Ruth in Platte Woods, MO

Tom in Platte Woods, MO

Patience in Platte Woods, MO

Mona in Lee’s Summit, MO

LouAnn in Lee’s Summit, MO

Gary in Kansas City, MO

and

Sandy in MEXICO!

If you want to become a “Virtual Walker” for Sole 2 Soul Walk it is easy AND simple.  Just e-mail me at doriswdavis@gmail.com and let us know how many miles you walked and what you are walking for.  It needn’t be the same as our purpose:  “Imagining a WORLD where women are equally valued decision-makers in partnership with men,” it just needs to be something you care about enough to walk your talk about.

We look forward to joining with you in bringing positive change into our lives and into our world.