I’ve been keeping track of the Theravada #Buddhist monks’ “Peace Walk,” their journey by foot from Texas, through the Bible Belt, to DC. It has been a hard slog (and some of the monks are barefoot), but as they walk, the crowds that welcome them are getting larger and larger. Filipino American author Tony Robles lives in North Carolina, and has been watching, too. In “A Monk’s Invisible Footprints,” he contemplates the significance of their #walk–and his: