"In the vacuous tumult of the Trump era, I was looking for something durable: a stiff shot of no-nonsense spirituality."

"I’m a skeptic by profession, an Irish Catholic by baptism, culture and upbringing — lapsed but listening, like half of all Americans of my family’s faith. But I was no longer comfortable in the squishy middle; it was too easy. I’d come to believe that an agnostic, as the Catholic comedian Stephen Colbert put it, 'is just an atheist without any balls.'"

Nugget extracted from "One Cure for Malnutrition of the Soul" (NYT) by searching the page for "Trump." The column, by Timothy Egan, is subtitled "We are spiritual beings. That’s why I joined the millions of people who make some form of religious pilgrimage." We're told Egan has a forthcoming book “A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith.”

I also searched the page for "global warming," "climate change," and "environment," because why does the cure for malnutrition of the soul have a big carbon footprint? Why not take your pilgrimage beginning at your own front door and walking to some American shrine?

Hey, I like my idea! What would your pilgrimage be? Egan's classic walk is 1,000 miles. Start at your door and walk a distance long enough to count as a "pilgrimage" that ends somewhere that you can conceptualize as a spiritual destination. Where do you go?