Taking a Walk I find it rather odd that the most dangerous thing that I do in my life is to take a simple walk. So, this evening as I was wondering I came to within three feet of a police car that as I approached pulled out in front of me for no apparent reason. Lights were not on. No sirens. No rush. I do not understand this idea of “sidewalk” when there are rarely any others walking on said pavement. The looks that I receive from those that drive automobiles are nothing less than incredulity (or maybe awe, which I have come to doubt?), even disgust, that I, a lone walker of all things, should dare cross the street at a stop sign. Your car can crush me in an instant. You hold the power in your steering wheel. What, may I ask, has become of a quiet walk in the neighborhood, a time when one may hear birds rustling about, or the voices of playful kids, or a lone dog barking in the distance? What is it that we have created a culture that wakes up in a box (on the hillside), jumps into a box on wheels, sees nothing along the way, works in a box, gets back into the box at the end of the work (?) day and goes home to a box to watch a box until one falls off into unconsciousness. So, I came home and worked in the garden. Another thing altogether. Why have we opted to grow our food miles and miles away from where we live, where the only way to get it there is by some kind of transport, that, when a lone walker is attempting to cross the street on a sunny morning, has to nearly fight for his life, Lord help him should he dare walk in front of that transport technology, when all he is doing is walking. WALKING! So, I take it that this an exercise in observation, of being aware, of seeing the patterns and moving about based on these observations. I take it that in the world that I inhabit there is this hankering after “owning” a farm. What is a farm anyway? “Miles from nowhere, guess I’ll take my time, oh yeah, to get there.” If only we could take our time…
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 02:50:56 +0000
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