The Semi-Pro Pilgrim

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"I bow not yet before the Iron Crown, nor cast my own small golden sceptre down," wrote J.R.R. Tolkien in Mythopoeia. Nor do I, so like everyone else here on Substack, I'm lugging my own modern 95 theses to the top of the Cliffs of Insanity.

About Steven W. Aunan

Steven W. Aunan retired from journalism and a career with a California public sector labor union. He is now a writer, photographer, and semi-pro pilgrim.

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