No headphones, or earbuds, no phone in my hand, no screen on the treadmill, I like taking a walk. Just a wander. Starting to move, with a vague idea of where the road goes, but no plan for where I am going or why. Out and back, the view is not the same traversing the same path in a different direction, or a loop, four right turns will close the circle back to where I started.
I can recall walking on the farm as a teenager, there was no place to go, but around the big field to see what was there, to move in the open air, to blend into the weeds. I would walk along the trees that lined the road, then along the edge of the big wood, around the edge of the swamp, across the back of the pond, then along the edge of the wood, until I came the creek. Walking along the creek, watching for fish, would take me back to the road on the other side of the farm, west of my grandparents house. If it was late fall, or early spring, I would check the old farmhouse, barn, and warehouse to see that nothing had been disturbed, then back across the field behind the barn to the house. A nice hour without leaving the property. An hour without seeing or hearing another person.
A comfortable pair of shoes is all I need, and that all I wear these days. I find I get to know where I am better, when I take a nice walk.
For me, too, nothing beats a nice, long walk.
ReplyDeleteSometime today I will take a walk,
DeletePeople take walking for granted but there's something quite magical about moving across the land just by putting one step in front of the other - going from A to B. At walking pace you notice what is around you and the rhythm aids your thought patterns like a musical beat.
ReplyDeleteI so agree.
DeleteI like that you walked along the edge of a swamp, a pond and a creek, with all probably interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe farm was kind of wet, lots of interesting places to see, but not the best farm land
DeleteYes, just have a nice walkabout with no distractions!
ReplyDeleteJust me and my thoughts
DeleteI've said it before, but I walk a lot and find it very meditative.
ReplyDeleteWalk this way.
DeleteThat's exactly what I like to do too. Even when I was a kid and parents didn't want me to cross the street, I'd walk all the way around our block, first in one direction and then in another.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who avoids making left turns in her car, she will drive five miles out of her way to do so.
Deletethere something to say about wandering.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on.