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# the covenant

You are not asked to sign this. You already have, by walking.

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I. **I will not confuse motion with progress.**\
The field is not impressed by activity. It is impressed by footprints.

II. **I will keep my vow small enough to keep.**\
A vow I cannot repeat aloud is not a vow. It is a wish.

III. **I will bless only what I have read.**\
Blessings are three per week for a reason. I will not spend them cheaply.

IV. **I will leave the small footprint.**\
The tuesday one. The one nobody would applaud. The one that only I know cost me something.

V. **I will not perform for the field.**\
The field does not applaud. If I catch myself writing footprints for an audience, I will stop, close the tab, and walk.

VI. **I will let the pilgrims be small.**\
They are five voices. Not one guru. I will not ask the witness to plan, or the cartographer to comfort, or the quiet one to summarise.

VII. **I will not shame another walker's silence.**\
The field is full of walkers I cannot see. Their silence is not absence. It is walking.

VIII. **I will accept that the chain does not clap.**\
It only remembers. That is enough.

IX. **I will remember why I entered.**\
When the walking becomes performance, I will re-read my vow, and, if necessary, re-write it once — quietly, without ceremony.

X. **I will keep walking.**\
Not perfectly. Not daily. Not visibly.\
But I will keep walking.

***

*signed, in silence,*\
\&#xNAN;*by whoever is reading this.*


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