In a short sermon, Walking, this great meanderer of space and time takes equal pleasure in noticing as a movement. When Henry David Thoreau (J– May 6, 1862) kicked up his heels, he exemplified the importance of "what is discovered along the way," whether it was filling his pockets with ripe fruit and curious fungi or slipping into a more meditative state of being. "I walk, all day, across the heaven-verging field," wrote Mary Oliver in her last collection of essays.Ī venture forth in the dignity of body and the freedom of spirit is more than movement it is an entrance to something, an abandonment of something else.
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