{"id":3417,"date":"2021-04-27T15:21:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T13:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2021-04-27T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T13:21:56","slug":"9-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/2021\/04\/27\/9-years\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I complete the circle of 9 years (108 month) steppps peace walk. Germany to India (Myanmar just now out of political reasons not possible).<br \/>\n16 countries<br \/>\nAbout 24.000 km<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to finish officially the peace walk. I felt a kind of vow I had given. I liked to be free of the vow.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am.<br \/>\nFull moon tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Moreh\/Manipur\/India\/PlanetEarth, at the border to Myanmar, I started a river clean up. Since 3.2. I just started, as reported, at the bridge of Khujailokh river close to the bazar in Moreh.<\/p>\n<p>I report every day about the Clean Up on Facebook (Thomas Heinrich Schm\u00f6ckel) if you like to follow. (Today day 84)<\/p>\n<p>It is a lot to do.<br \/>\nAnd there is some progress.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time Khakhai builded me a house at the Lamlokh\/Lailokh river. Since I moved in here, I feel day by day better and better to be here.<br \/>\nI even started a tree nursery yesterday. (I just feel to do so, so why not starting it, even while not knowing how long I stay?)<br \/>\nThe Lailokh\/Lamlokh river is a beautiful oasis of nature. Here, where I live now, its so fresh and pure (little further down the pollution starts)<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, 28.4.2021, 9 years after doing the first steppps of this long journey, I will plant about 9 trees.<br \/>\nThere, where I plant them, it&#8217;s a very complicated place. It was a total rubbish place. Everything is cleaned up now. Even though there is one water tank left, which the people (miss)use as a fire place. I clean that place up every day I am there.<br \/>\nPeople want change, but everyone sees the impact of &#8218;dramatic&#8216; change. Everyone need to change with there habbits, not to throw garbage eather in the river or to burn it.<br \/>\nAnd people also need really help, support from outside, living in such condition and surrounding.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I am looking very much forward to plant these trees tomorrow.<br \/>\nThe Forest department is supporting me with the sablings (as many as I wish to have).<\/p>\n<p>The peace walk<br \/>\nI have the feeling, the peacewalk\/peacework will not be finished. It just continues.<br \/>\nI just love this work\/walk so much. And I love to continue.<br \/>\nI do not know (a little bit I know) where and how it continues. But its beautiful and I love to follow &#8218;It&#8217;s&#8216; plan.<\/p>\n<p>I even dont know, how long I will stay here in Moreh (to my Mother I promised to come visit her end of June\/beginning of July).<br \/>\nBut signs are showing maybe other plans?<\/p>\n<p>I love to follow my hearts advice.<br \/>\nI love to be with this work.<br \/>\nI love to be.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for supporting me all the years.<br \/>\n(Also post-walk news will be updated here)<br \/>\nSteppps is still alive and continues its work.<\/p>\n<p>With Love<br \/>\nThomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I complete the circle of 9 years (108 month) steppps peace walk. Germany to India (Myanmar just now out of political reasons not possible). 16 countries About 24.000 km I wanted to finish officially the peace walk. I felt a kind of vow I had given. I liked to be free of the vow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}