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 unyielding stream of victims. The air is thick with the scent of antiseptic and the cacophony of nurses rushing forth, their expressions a mix of anxiety. A man with a laceration whimpers softly as a assistant prepares his care. An elderly woman coughs weakly while awaiting her chance at a bed.