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 relentless stream of individuals. The atmosphere is thick with the scent of cleanliness and the noise of staff rushing around, their faces a mix of anxiety. A man with a laceration whimpers softly as a technician sets up his medication. An elderly woman coughs weakly while awaiting her opportunity