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 Emergency Room at Grady Memorial Hospital roars with a unyielding stream of patients. The atmosphere is thick with the reek of medicine and the sounds of staff rushing around, their expressions a mix of urgency. A teenager with a laceration whimpers softly as a nurse prepares his care. A helpless patient gasps for air while awaiting her tur