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 bustles with a constant stream of individuals. The air is thick with the aroma of antiseptic and the cacophony of staff rushing around, their faces a mix of urgency. A man with a laceration whimpers softly as a nurse administers his medication. An elderly woman gasps for air while awaiting her turn at a station