Maggie's Million Mindful Steps!!

                                      “...to see what’s on the other side of that hill, then what’s beyond that.”

                                                                                                                -Grandma Gatewood

In 1955, 67 year-old Emma Rowena Gatewood, known as Grandma Gatewood to her 24 grandchildren, told her family that she was going for a walk. Wearing a pair of Keds canvas sneakers and carrying an army blanket, raincoat, and plastic shower curtain all tied up in a handmade denim bag, she set off on a walk that lasted over 2,000 miles. She was the first woman to walk the Appalachian Trail in one season, traveling on wooded paths from Georgia to Maine. 

Walking, for Grandma Gatewood, was a way to explore the world, “to see what’s on the other side of that hill, then what’s beyond that,” but also to heal, meditate, and calm her mind. Starting on the first day of the decade, my goal is to walk - every day - mindfully,…