Tag: walking
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May 2, 2019
Last week, I was taking care of a friend’s old dog. Walks are a different thing entirely when you’re with an old dog. You think that you’re looking at the world, seeing it. But then you take a walk with an old dog and you realize that you had been rushing past it all. “Here.…
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August 20, 2015
I was out walking the other morning. At one point, I intended to turn right. Instead, at the last minute, I turned left and just after I did, a red-tailed hawk went flying in front of me—so close that I could almost feel the heat of him. For the rest of the walk, I kept…
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June 11, 2015
I’ve been rushing my entire life. I walk fast and I talk fast. I hurry, hurry, hurry. But now, I am walking with an old dog. And he does not hurry. He won’t hurry. He can’t. So, I walk more slowly than I ever have. And the wonder of that is this: I see more…
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February 13, 2014
It has been very cold (the coldest winter in 30 years!) here. Some days, it is too cold to walk. And this is too bad, because for me there is something about walking out in the world which is conducive to the interior act of writing. Brenda Ueland’s wrote about this connection between walking and…