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Things Become Other Things A Walking
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ZP/Things-Become-Other- Things-A-Walking-Memoir A
transformative 300-mile walk along
Japan8217sancient pilgrimage routes and through
depopulating villages inspires a heartrending
remembrance of a long-lost friend, documented in
poignant, imaginative prose and remarkable
photography.Photographer and essayist Craig Mod
is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021,
during the pandemic shutdown of
Japan8217sborders, one particular walk around
the Kumano Kod333routes8212theancient
pilgrimage paths of Japan8217ssouthern Kii
Peninsula8212too on an unexpectedly personal new
significance. Mod found himself reflecting on his
own childhood in a post-industrial American town,
his experiences as an adoptee, his unlikely
relocation to Japan at nineteen, and
his relationship with one lost friend, whose life
was tragically cut short after their paths
diverged. For Mod, the walk became a tool to bear
witness to a quiet grace visible only when
8220you8217re bored out of your skull and the
miles left are long.8221Traing a 300-mile-long
journey, Things Become Other Things folds
together history, literature, poetry, Shinto and
Buddhist spirituality, and contemporary rural
life in Japan via dozens of conversations with
aging fishermen, multi-generational inn owners,
farmers, and kissaten cafe 8220mams.8221Along
the way, Mod communes with mountain fauna,
marvels over evidence of bears and boars, and
hopscotches around leeches. He encounters
whispering priests and foul-mouthed little kids
who ask