THE SACRED JOURNEY: PILGRIMAGE AS TRANSFORMATION

{Throughout history, pilgrimage has been a deeply personal/sacred/transformative experience for countless individuals. Drawn by faith/a calling/an undeniable yearning, people from diverse/various/all walks of life embark on physically demanding/spiritual/symbolic journeys to holy sites/places of power/locations imbued with meaning. These pilgrimag

The ER at Grady Memorial Hospital roars with a unyielding stream of patients. The atmosphere is thick with the scent of antiseptic and the noise of doctors rushing forth, their faces a mix of anxiety. A man with a laceration whimpers softly as a technician prepares his care. An elderly woman gasps for air while awaiting her turn at a chair. Th