Sunday Serenity

Good evening, Cadre sphere. Wait for a couple to get on. Hopefully find a place with good enough service and some light. I'm walking here tonight on Sunday evening because. Well, because that's all I've been doing for about a week now. Get you some good light. I'll just walk backward and forward, but my name is Jason Lennox and I am your resident recovery champion. Coming from you. Coming to you from Rogersville, Tennessee. Getting a little bit lost. I'm in the middle of a 307 plus mile walk. It's gonna be closer to 400, maybe 450 by the end, but started in West Virginia, went down through Kentucky, then Virginia, now to Tennessee and walking straight west over to Nashville as part of the recovery road, which is a 307,000 collective mile walk.

Again, mine is the flagship 307 mile. Hey, Emily, it's good to see you too. I'm glad you can tune in and. Yeah, we're. We're having a blast out here. Just wanted to come to you tonight with from Erie, Pennsylvania. It's good to see you as always. But, yeah, just wanted to share three words and three things that come from those three words, at least that I've learned over the first seven days of doing nothing but walking. The three words are boring, polluted, and hard. I'm going to share what I've learned about each of those because this walk has been up and down the US highway system.

And in case you've never walked on the highway, which I never had, not a lot anyway, it is very boring. It can be very boring. It is very polluted like I've never imagined. And by polluted, I mean there's roadkill everywhere. Things you don't see when you're driving. There's garbage everywhere, Nails just. It's. It's so polluted. And then from a noise perspective, just constantly being whipped by the wind and cars flying by. So that's what I mean by polluted and then hard. Well, walked about 160 miles.

So seven days. I think hard kind of speaks for itself, but three things that I've learned from those. So boring. What does boring do? Boring for me has meant a sense of internal joy that I don't think I've experienced in a while. When there is nothing to do but walk and watch traffic and walk and watch traffic. It forces us to kind of come to terms with internally what joy means, how we find joy. And, you know, Sunday serenity, as this is titled, really, I think serenity is kind of the absence of everything.

So it's a lot of nothingness and that's what I've been experiencing. So out of boring has come an internal joy. I've just felt. I thought this was going to be so hard, that it would just add so much stress to life. But I felt as light in the last week as I have in a long, long time. So that's boring. Polluted. Let me tell you again, walking up and down the US highway system, see things that never see driving, I promise. And it's not great. And it's, you know, it's, it's just really, it's fascinating to see.

So what's come of that is a sense of cleanliness and clarity. You know, I told you all the things that you see on the side of the road, again, paired with the boring thing. But then the pollution of like the wind and the cars coming, there's just a sense of clarity that comes from that and like having to stare at cars going 70, 60, 50 miles an hour coming right at me. You know, I'm locked in to what they're doing and every direction they're turning and if they're veering and if they're not, and some have, and I've, you know, probably been 18 to 24 inches from a couple cars.

But it brings a sense of clarity because I think I'm kind of forced to just lock in on what's in front of me, which removes all those thoughts. And again, the pollution, like just the cleanliness of it, of my, my thoughts, of my mind has been fascinating. And the other thing is, you know, hard again, probably don't have to share a whole lot about that. It's just been hard physically. I've got, call it eight or nine blisters at this point between the two feet. Think they're getting better. Massive problem with my right Achilles heel and knee problems.

One's completely swollen in the mornings. And so it's just been a lot. 20 plus miles. I'd never walked 15 miles before this, this journey. So it's, it's been a lot. But what comes from hard always, in my opinion, is a level of resilience and just a, an appreciation. It's, it's interesting the things that we take for granted. At least I take for granted. For example, I've noticed my steps and where I'm walking on these highways to get out of harm's way. A lot of times it's bouncing down into the, into the grass and it's tall grass and you don't really know what's under there.

So you're always stepping in holes on things, through things. So now, walking on pavement. Oh, my goodness. I have such an appreciation for just flat ground and walking through this little town of Rogersville after dinner and just not hearing cars all the time, hearing the crickets, watching the. Seeing the houses and the yards, everything just looks so much more beautiful to me. So those. Those are a few things that I think I've been thinking a lot about and I've learned here on this journey. And it's only one week.

I've got about three more weeks to go, two and a half maybe. And, you know, I'm just really excited to just continue this and see what else comes to me. But, boy, it reminds me a lot of the saying, like, playing in the gutter, playing in the dirt. Like, it forces me to. To experience all those things that are. Are polluted, that are boring, to be able to come out of that and, you know, experience all the great things, the things we take for granted. Everything's relative, in my opinion. And when I'm running across a broken, polluted highway system, all these things, the lights, the stores, the pavement, just hearing the cars, like, not going 70 miles an hour is really a blessing.

So pretty pumped to be out here and sharing with you. com you want to jump in and walk some miles with us? We're doing some work trying to get 307,000 collectively and raise a dollar for each of those miles. So jump out there, follow me, find me on Facebook. Doing a lot of posting there. Just all the amazing lessons. I'll share more about those, but go over to, like, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram. You'll see some amazing things and some amazing experiences with people out here. In fact, just left dinner and started having a conversation with the waitress.

And her name is Selena. Turns out her husband had been struggling for 15 years and now has six months of sobriety. And she was so moved by what we were doing that she came back with the bill and she said, I'm taking 10% off. I can't thank you guys enough for what you're doing. So, you know, just those stories are happening several times every single day. It's just amazing. Luke, our founder, he said it on LinkedIn very well yesterday. If you want to hate our country and our world, sit at home and watch the.

Watch the screens. If you want to love it, get out here and hit the pavement, because there are a lot of good People out here. A lot of good partners and just a lot of fun to be had. So good evening. Sherry, it's good to see you. I know you've been following along. This has been a great journey. But you'll be able to see from the beginning again. Boring, polluted and hard. Those things for me, have brought internal joy, a clarity, a resilience to just continue. And true just about anything. It really holds true.

The whole recovery thing, when we go through what we go through, the rest of the world becomes a lot easier. All these feet problems, all the ankles, the knees, everything that's been really, really hurting. There has not been one time where I've even thought that I'm not gonna finish this thing. In fact, in the beginning, I thought perhaps the Achilles was gon to take me off my feet. And my backup plan ever since has been to find a wheelchair in one of these towns and wheel my way to Nashville.

I will make it to Nashville, and I will do it with a smile on my face and with one of the greatest experiences I've ever had. So hope you find some joy in that. Boring, polluted, hard can really mean internal joy, clarity, resilience. Keep going. Keep fighting, my people. Keep fighting this recovery fight. We need you. You. We need all of us. I will be in touch with you next Sunday. From where? I don't know, but somewhere fun. I can promise you that. Thanks, Sherry. And we'll talk to you all next week.

Until then, I hope you all have wonderful weeks. Bye. Bye.