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Walk away from emptiness

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“Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.” ― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

Day 98:

In great cities, spaces, as well as places, are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. - Rebecca Solnit

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"A fool always wants to shorten space and time: a wise man wants to lengthen both." 

- John Ruskin

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"People usually consider walking on water or on thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle." [Thich Nhat Hanh]

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The freedom to roam

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“A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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" I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that one always  catches melancholy from the other) I know that I have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again" - from an essay on walking by G. M. Trevelyan, 1913

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“Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Day 61:

Three is beauty in friendship and I was reminded of that last night. Now back to Walking. The experience of NOT walking for three weeks has taught me of my failings. The main one being my lack of structural discipline. I know what I desire and what would be good for me, that being a daily Taiji practice which is what I should be doing now while the body rebuilds, but so far nothing, zippo, zero. I also need to stop beating myself up about it. I'm now thinking if I write these thoughts (failings) down on paper it might help which it has as I will now schedule a morning and afternoon session for my practice to bring me back into a routine. This has always worked with swimming and walking practice so I'll now need to do this with Taiji. Living on the east coast of Singapore was easy, as all I needed to do was show up 4 times a week for a group practice in the park where I was told what to do and in what sequence. Here's that word again; Intention. I'll keep myself posted as I'm ready to start some step strolling tomorrow as well.

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