Scott Savage

I stumbled uplon this book at the library while looking for something else. I was immediately drawn to the cover, the subtitle ("Walking My Belief"), and the simple pull quote on the back of the book ("Walking always leaves me feeling I have exited time to participate in the eternal now of creation. It puts me in a relationship of reverie and praise for all I see." ) What joy! I feel the same way! I love walking (I deliberately try to walk as many places as I can) and thought this book would be a celebration/mediation on walking/slowing down/the simple life, etc. I was wrong.

Author Scott Savage has rejected modernity has decided to live life as a Quaker (no problem there -- live and let live). However, Savage wastes no opportunity reminding the rest of us who haven't forsaken modern ways that we are most definitely on the wrong path.

The main point of the book is to chronicle a journey that Savage will take, on foot, to personally surrender his driver's license at the DMV in Columbus, OH. It doesn't matter that his license *expires* on the day he is surrendering it. It also doesn't matter that there is a DMV just a few miles from his home. Nope, he sanctimoniously wants to surrender his license in the state capitol as a matter of principle. This will require an 8 day walk (during which time his pregnant wife will be at home with their 3 very young children, feeding the barn animals, pumping water from the cistern, cooking over a fire, washing clothes with a washboard, and taking care of all other household tasks "Little House on the Prairie" style).

Seems as though at the end of all this Savage accomplished his goal, but still didn't have any perspective, IMO.

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