How to Take a Walk
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How to Take a Walk
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#2Sometimes I'll go for a long walk, maybe six miles. I don't walk fast or listen to music, I just look around, maybe at people's yards. I like to see who has a bird feeder or interesting landscaping. When I first start, my mind is full of thoughts and my muscles and legs are full of bounce, even tight, but after four miles, my mind is nearly empty, except for the kind of slow easy thoughts that someone who works the land all day, someone who sees the sun rise and set, might have, and my legs are heavier, yet loose, and ready for many more miles. After five miles, my gut feels lean and empty, my body feels purged of something.
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#3A re-quote from the comments:
> If you need to listen to music while walking, don’t walk; and don’t listen to music.
I tend to never listen to music unless I'm taking a walk. I have no anxiety about idleness, but I do have an acute anxiety about others' opinions of my taste in music—it is such that I can only stand to enjoy music when there is no one close enough to me to hear it. Seeing as I live in an apartment with thin walls, this means going for a walk.
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#4Beautiful article. Quick summary for the lazy hackers: people don't walk for the sake of walking anymore.
The last few paragraphs were the most interesting in my opinion if you don't have the time to read it all.
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#5The ribbonfarm guy really impresses me.
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#6Beautiful article. Quick summary for the lazy hackers: people don't walk for the sake of walking anymore. The last few paragraphs were the most interesting in my opinion if you don't have the time to read it all.
Beautiful indeed!
summary for the lazy hackers / if you don't have the time to read it all
Had to laugh when I read this though, since this article is in so many ways talking about the same ones that will read that summary and click on to some other article on here.
Walking as the author describes is one of those simple pleasures that we have been gifted, but so few of us ever slow down to realize it and to receive it.
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#7Beautiful article. Quick summary for the lazy hackers: people don't walk for the sake of walking anymore. The last few paragraphs were the most interesting in my opinion if you don't have the time to read it all.
Beautiful indeed! summary for the lazy hackers / if you don't have the time to read it all Had to laugh when I read this though, since this article is in so many ways talking about the same ones that will read that summary and click on to some other article on here. Walking as the author describes is one of those simple pleasures that we have been gifted, but so few of us ever slow down to realize it and to receive i…
Same, I laugh when I wrote "don't have the time" since it was exactly what the article was talking about. Good catch.
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#8I've made a habit of taking a walk around 2 pm every Sunday. No matter how busy things get between school and business, an hour or so walk helps keep me grounded.
In much the same way that starting the day with breakfast gives my days a sense of rhythm, walking once a week gives my weeks a good demarcation.
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#9I liked the article; it expressed something that had been lingering on the edges of my subconscious, but that I had never brought to light - like most good articles do.
What I don't see is why it had to have an anti-American bias. It doesn't help make your point, and all it does is antagonize your American readers. I am an American, I also take walks.
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#10I'm American and I take walks all the time. I rather enjoy walking quite a bit. My favorite was when I used to live in Chicago. The never ending expanse of sidewalk and streets meant I could leave my apartment, and just walk ... for hours. I used to walk home from work at the Field Museum, just because I enjoyed it. Although I guess that doesn't fit his definition of "just taking a walk", as about 3 hours later I'd arrive at a destination, my apartment.