morning walk – RenaissanceRebecca

Scenes from a Morning Walk

Every morning, sometime between 6:30 and 7, I depart whichever home is serving as my current residence: hiking shoes on feet, pedometer at my hip. If I’m going to walk 490 miles across Spain in September, it’s time to get practicing. This morning, I walked down to a fog-covered Schroon Lake with Michael and my father,…

Noticing

This morning, I looked at the map of the island trying to find a new route to take on my walk. “I’ve covered quite a bit of this area already,” I said to Lois. “Well, go around the opposite way,” she told me. She explained that when she went to trade shows she would go…

Serendipity

“I forgot a bag again,” I thought this morning as I set off on my morning walk. The beer can glistening in the morning sun reminded me that I wanted to bring a bag on my walk to collect the cans I see along the way. I counted twenty the other day. By the time…

Putting Yourself First

Tonight I’m teaching a class at my local library. It’s the second in a series given by the Clutter Clearing Companion (that’s me!). The first was last month. The topic was paring down your stock of books. The timing was perfect as the library was having a book sale two weeks later. We had about…