“You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
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“Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It’s hard to create a footpath on your own…Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people.
Paths are consensual, too, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over (through they may persist in the memorious substance of land law). Like sea channels that require regular dredging to stay open, paths NEED walking.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
11/20/16
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I was on my way to the post office, to mail out some cards and birthday presents. My friend asked me, why do you take your time doing that, when you often don’t ever get anything back. I thought about it, and said that somewhere in my life, I had figured out that Love is not about what you get from others, its about you – what you do and what you give.
So much going on good, bad, or worse in the world today. Stressed about the future and what happens after the 20th. So its 40 in Rochester, and we have had a gentle rain all day. Did you take time to walk in the rain today? You should! Its refreshing and not to wet. When the temperature is 90 in July and August and there is no rain in sight, you will be dreaming of a day like today. Cool, but not to cold, and wet.
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When walking, it is good to check, from time to time, what we are walking on. What is the foundation of your life? Where does it lie?
11/30/16 Montreal Canada
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“No sooner was I safely among the gravestones than a great feeling of warmth and calm contentment came sweeping over me.
Life among the dead.
This was where I was meant to be!
What a revelation! And what a place to have it!
I could succeed at whatever I chose. I could, for instance, become an undertaker. Or a pathologist. A detective, a gravedigger, a tombstone maker, or even the world’s greatest murderer.
Suddenly the world was my oyster–even if it was a dead one.”
― Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
George Winston – Jesus, Jesus, Rest your head.
1/1/17
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The unique things about stairs, is that they exist as transitional places. They are not a room, but not, not a room. You can spend time on stairs, sit on stairs, eat on stairs, run up and down stairs, all things you can do in a room, but stairs have built in chairs to sit on, or think on, or talk to neighbors on.
11/30/16
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9/11/15
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Sometimes the snow looks remarkably like cotton candy, and at other times, like death. I prefer the first, but live with the second.
12/16/16
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