Please Join me on a Walk

With a life-long love of walking, I plan to take you on past and present rambles and enjoy the beauty we are all so lucky to experience every day, if you take the time to see. It probably started when I first pulled myself up to stand, hanging onto the edge of a coffee table perhaps, to take my first steps. I found I could get from where I was to somewhere else. What a sense of freedom.

Growing up we walked to and from school with a second lap in the middle of the day when we went home for lunch and walked back to school. We walked to church on Sundays. On weekends we walked downtown to meet friends. In the winter after school, we walked to the local skating pond to join the neighborhood kids and skate until it got dark and walked home for dinner and homework.

My legs then were little motors that got me wherever I wanted to go. Rain or shine. I developed my love of walking in my early years and have walked so many miles since, appreciating what I see around me. There’s much more to take in when you’re on foot than as a passenger in a car. As you walk you can think, solve problems that are unsolvable in the din of everyday distractions. Walking can be relaxed, hurried, slow, fast — so many walking speeds and so many steps…