Monday, March 12, 2007

Life-changing Events Apart from the Hiking

Charlie Spring writes in the Joilet (IL) Herald News on 11 March 2007 writes under the headline "Loss of job proved a life-altering road," about having lost his job 3 years ago when the manufacturing plant where he was manager closed up shop. And then about the struggles, financial and personal, that unemployment and subsequent under-employment brought to him and his wife. Not much to do with the Trail, I know.

Except this: he wraps the article in a Trail metaphor.

First sentence: "For a long time I've wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail because I've heard it is a life-changing experience."

Then come his stories about how being out of work radically changed his life.

Then the last sentence: "So in a manner of speaking, I managed to walk the Appalachian Trail."

Some folks don't have to spend half a year walking in order to be changed.

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