Thanks for a great post! One of my favorite walks is the Ship Harbor Trail on the “quiet side” of Acadia, between the Wonderland Trail and Bass Harbor Lighthouse. The pathway is a wonderful loop with a bit of everything: bird-filled woods, a quiet inlet, boardwalks, mosses, stone steps and the anticipation of the approaching surf sounds and open ocean at the turn around point. The trail has a figure eight configuration. Other than that overlapping kiss in the middle, the going and the coming provide two different terrains. Judy Yocom
And thank you for a wonderful comment. Your description of the things noticed along the trail takes me right there. Re the two different terrains: I wonder if you find, as I often do, that the thoughts on the going also change course for the return. Sometimes I even feel I am posing a conundrum on the way out, and that my feet only turn me back the other way when something internal shifts toward a resolution.
Only people in the 1830s could go on and on about the physical mechanics of walking and expect the average reader to engage with that…I really enjoyed that section of this post—and it made me take a walk, too!
I love this posting on walking. Yes! (Another suggestion: Do you know Rebecca Solnit's book, Wanderlust? It's great.) I love your video of the well-dressed man walking along... Thanks so much for your soul-ful sharing.
I sometimes wonder if in certain individuals they gravitate toward an interest or profession because of their surname ... it's more common than one might expect, the matching of name and pursuit.
Thanks for a great post! One of my favorite walks is the Ship Harbor Trail on the “quiet side” of Acadia, between the Wonderland Trail and Bass Harbor Lighthouse. The pathway is a wonderful loop with a bit of everything: bird-filled woods, a quiet inlet, boardwalks, mosses, stone steps and the anticipation of the approaching surf sounds and open ocean at the turn around point. The trail has a figure eight configuration. Other than that overlapping kiss in the middle, the going and the coming provide two different terrains. Judy Yocom
And thank you for a wonderful comment. Your description of the things noticed along the trail takes me right there. Re the two different terrains: I wonder if you find, as I often do, that the thoughts on the going also change course for the return. Sometimes I even feel I am posing a conundrum on the way out, and that my feet only turn me back the other way when something internal shifts toward a resolution.
Wow- what a comprehensive view..much to comp template and inspire. Reminds me...I need to get moving!!
Only people in the 1830s could go on and on about the physical mechanics of walking and expect the average reader to engage with that…I really enjoyed that section of this post—and it made me take a walk, too!
I hope that on that walk you put your feet down in the correct order, et cetera and maintained the right sequence as you proceeded forward!
One can never be too careful and thoughtful!
I love this posting on walking. Yes! (Another suggestion: Do you know Rebecca Solnit's book, Wanderlust? It's great.) I love your video of the well-dressed man walking along... Thanks so much for your soul-ful sharing.
Thank you for that book suggestion -- it's one I haven't read yet, adding to the list! I've always loved the word "Wanderlust"--
Walker on walking! I love it. And walking itself. And the rhythms of your and Gros’s proses.
I sometimes wonder if in certain individuals they gravitate toward an interest or profession because of their surname ... it's more common than one might expect, the matching of name and pursuit.
I think that’s why I’m a Victorianist! 😁
Very interesting and very inspiring! In fact, it made me decide to take a walk right now!
Great! I think you'd love the book, Louise ... I'm reading it slowly, there's so much to savor in it. Hope you enjoyed that walk!