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but i hope some holistic treatments can help. She lives in Kowloon and do you
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September 21st 2007 is the International Day of Peace and on this day, a tree will be planted at Fieldworks, Lantau Island that will symbolize the beginning of a journey that will take Paul Coleman and his wife Konomi Kikuchi ten months to complete. At 13.00 the next day, September 22nd they begin walking from Kadoorie Farm in the New Territories and will finish in Beijing on the eve of the 2008 Olympics.
Since 1990 Paul Coleman has been walking the earth, spreading an environmental and peace message to every one he comes into contact with. His first major walk was from Canada to South America to draw attention to the destruction of the world’s forests and to the first United Nations Earth Summit that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. He began this two-year journey with just enough money for two months and freely admits that the prospect of a two-year journey with virtually no money terrified him. How would he survive and why on earth would he make such a journey?
In 1988 Paul had a wonderful vision while cycling around Iceland. He was there to find himself after a life of good times, in careers that took him all over the world and paid him large amounts of money. It seemed he had everything, money, parties, travel, and yet he felt like he had nothing, his world was falling apart. The Amazon Forests that he so loved were being destroyed. He wanted to do something to help save them, but he did not know what he could do. He’d left school when he was fifteen and wondered who would listen to him talk about saving the forest. He needed time and the space to think – all to often our minds are filled with the day to day complexities of life – so he looked at his globe and came to Iceland, surely there he would be alone. To make sure he bought a bike and set off. As he cycled he marveled at Iceland’s great natural beauty and knew that he was looking for something, and never feared that he would find it – even when it came to his last days of cycling through the wilderness. Then one day he arrived at a chasm in the midst of a tremendous lightning storm and in this simply space of no more that a few meters wide and ten meters deep he had a vision.
This vision lasted for two hours and displayed to Paul two worlds, one a world of wondrous beauty where all things were possible and the other a world so dark that no one should ever go there. And it came to him that humanity is at a crossroads and that humanity faces a choice: We can go on destroying this planet and its life and end up in a dark destroyed world or we can set to preserving life and enter into the glorious beautiful world. There was no third choice, no easy, do nothing hope for the best path. Through this vision Paul discovered himself. His life instantly changed as on the spot he dedicated his life to the earth. No matter what happened from now on he would work only for the earth. He came back to Canada gave up his job and set to off to the Amazon eventually leading a 700 km Balsa Raft Expedition that drew a lot of attention to the destruction of the forests.
But these trips were costing him money and he was getting paid for the talks that he now gave at schools across Canada. How could he continue to spread the environmental message? Then, disaster. A Company that had promised to pay for another Expedition suddenly backed out and he was devastated, and found himself wandering through the streets of Toronto with his head in his hand and tears rolling down his cheeks. But even in the midst of the darkest night a light always burns, however faint. Paul heard a voice, “Walk there. If you can’t fly to South America, walk there. Walk to the Earth Summit. Walk there.”
His next thought was “Oh No. Not that.”
He didn’t like walking. He loved travelling by bus, train ship, but he never liked walking and of course he had no money. For the next three months he tried everything but walk, but deep within his mind he always knew that he would. The first step is always the most difficult. To make sure that he made that first step he placed himself into a position that forced him to! At an environmental presentation held at Toronto’s Science Center he stood up and in front of an audience of 500 people announced that he would walk from Canada to South America to draw attention to the summit. Now he had to do it.
On July 25th 1990 he set off from Kingston, Ontario with a backpack too heavy, a lot of dreams and a lot of fears. He believed that people would support his journey, that people would understand his mission and he created for himself a vision of thousands of people joining his cause. These visions gave him strength and the will to continue. Happily he would march along. But then his fears would set in, what if people didn’t support him, would he end up starving, homeless, sleeping beneath a bridge, forgotten by humanity? Perhaps it was these conflicting emotions that caused him to struggle for the fist year walking through the United States, where he went hungry most of the time. But step by step he plugged on and step by step he got more and more support until he arrived one day into a small village in Mexico where a hundred or so people gathered around a grass traffic roundabout. In front of each person was a tree. A man walked up to Paul introduced himself as the Mayor, gave him a tree and led him to the hole at the center of the roundabout. There, he planted the first tree of his journey. From that day on more and more people joined the journey. Every day more and more trees were planted until finally there would be ten thousand people walking down the road planting trees – by the time he left Mexico over 1,000,000 trees had been planted. The success continued, as did the support, it‘s fifteen years since the summit and he’s still walking. Only now he’s walking with his wife, Konomi Kikuchi, whom he met three years ago in Japan.
Thanks to the assistance of thousands and thousand of people from every walk of life, Paul’s journeys have led to the planting of millions of trees throughout the world – he even carried one into Sarajevo in 1995 in the midst of that cities three year siege. That tree he planted in the spirit of hope that humanity would come to recognize the horrendous impact of war, not only on humanity, but also on the environment that we all need to exist.
He has now walked 44,000 kilometers through 39 nations and is about to embark on The Walk From Hong Kong To Beijing.
This walk stems from last years Paul and Konomi’s Earthday Friendship Walk through China, Korea and Japan which they made to help unite the Earthday and environmental movements of the three nations. The walk was huge success and received support from the Olympic Committee and the Forestry Ministry who welcomed the couple into Beijing and opened their journey up to the Chinese media, who reported the story throughout the land. This support extended to an invitation for them to undertake another walk through China – this time in support of Beijing efforts to ‘Green The Olympics.’
And now they are here in Hong Kong, creating new visions for the future, dreaming of a green Olympics, of China going green, advancing sustainability around the planet.
If you want more information or to participate in this walk please visit www.earthwalker.com to follow Paul and Konomi’s Walk From Hong Kong To Beijing.
15 - 28 September
September 21st 2007 is the International Day of Peace and on this day, a tree will be planted at Fieldworks, Lantau Island that will symbolize the beginning of a journey that will take Paul Coleman and his wife Konomi Kikuchi ten months to complete. At 13.00 the next day, September 22nd they begin walking from Kadoorie Farm in the New Territories and will finish in Beijing on the eve of the 2008 Olympics.
Since 1990 Paul Coleman has been walking the earth, spreading an environmental and peace message to every one he comes into contact with. His first major walk was from Canada to South America to draw attention to the destruction of the world’s forests and to the first United Nations Earth Summit that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. He began this two-year journey with just enough money for two months and freely admits that the prospect of a two-year journey with virtually no money terrified him. How would he survive and why on earth would he make such a journey?
This vision lasted for two hours and displayed to Paul two worlds, one a world of wondrous beauty where all things were possible and the other a world so dark that no one should ever go there. And it came to him that humanity is at a crossroads and that humanity faces a choice: We can go on destroying this planet and its life and end up in a dark destroyed world or we can set to preserving life and enter into the glorious beautiful world. There was no third choice, no easy, do nothing hope for the best path. Through this vision Paul discovered himself. His life instantly changed as on the spot he dedicated his life to the earth. No matter what happened from now on he would work only for the earth. He came back to Canada gave up his job and set to off to the Amazon eventually leading a 700 km Balsa Raft Expedition that drew a lot of attention to the destruction of the forests.
But these trips were costing him money and he was getting paid for the talks that he now gave at schools across Canada. How could he continue to spread the environmental message? Then, disaster. A Company that had promised to pay for another Expedition suddenly backed out and he was devastated, and found himself wandering through the streets of Toronto with his head in his hand and tears rolling down his cheeks. But even in the midst of the darkest night a light always burns, however faint. Paul heard a voice, “Walk there. If you can’t fly to South America, walk there. Walk to the Earth Summit. Walk there.”
On July 25th 1990 he set off from Kingston, Ontario with a backpack too heavy, a lot of dreams and a lot of fears. He believed that people would support his journey, that people would understand his mission and he created for himself a vision of thousands of people joining his cause. These visions gave him strength and the will to continue. Happily he would march along. But then his fears would set in, what if people didn’t support him, would he end up starving, homeless, sleeping beneath a bridge, forgotten by humanity? Perhaps it was these conflicting emotions that caused him to struggle for the fist year walking through the United States, where he went hungry most of the time. But step by step he plugged on and step by step he got more and more support until he arrived one day into a small village in Mexico where a hundred or so people gathered around a grass traffic roundabout. In front of each person was a tree. A man walked up to Paul introduced himself as the Mayor, gave him a tree and led him to the hole at the center of the roundabout. There, he planted the first tree of his journey. From that day on more and more people joined the journey. Every day more and more trees were planted until finally there would be ten thousand people walking down the road planting trees – by the time he left Mexico over 1,000,000 trees had been planted. The success continued, as did the support, it‘s fifteen years since the summit and he’s still walking. Only now he’s walking with his wife, Konomi Kikuchi, whom he met three years ago in Japan.
This walk stems from last years Paul and Konomi’s Earthday Friendship Walk through China, Korea and Japan which they made to help unite the Earthday and environmental movements of the three nations. The walk was huge success and received support from the Olympic Committee and the Forestry Ministry who welcomed the couple into Beijing and opened their journey up to the Chinese media, who reported the story throughout the land. This support extended to an invitation for them to undertake another walk through China – this time in support of Beijing efforts to ‘Green The Olympics.’
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