A path to ideas on a walk in the woods. I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau I walk to most of my ideas, and walking, I’d wager, is the most ingenious instrument in a writer’s toolbox. […]
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Some Words on Walls
A walk in the woods. Is a stone the earth’s utterance? I’ve been pondering stone walls quite a bit recently, and the thought that stones are akin to words keeps coming back to me. For stones rest embedded in the enduring culture of their geology in the same way that words wait quietly in the […]