The Essay: Strange Strolls

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The Essay: Strange Strolls: Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls

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Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls

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Writer Stephanie Victoire has a haunting hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia.

Writer and Shamanic Energy Healer Stephanie Victoire has a haunting hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia, meditating on the ancient paths of Native American precursors.

As an injured soldier under house arrest, Xavier de Maistre staved off boredom by imagining every step around his drawing room was a step across a country; Virginia Woolf’s writerly wandering around central London to buy a pencil exposed the city's transformation in darkness. Inspired by these ironic quests and symbolic expeditions, five contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.

In this episode, writer and Shamanic Energy Healer Stephanie Victoire has a haunting hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia, meditating on the ancient paths of Native American precursors. 

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Five writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.

Following in the footsteps of Xavier de Maistre and Virginia Woolf, five writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.

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