20100215 – charlotte
Posted on February 15, 2010 - Filed Under picture of the day
let’s see, i was going to talk about two things but now i can only remember one.
hmmm. . . maybe i was going to write about walking. walking is my favorite pastime. i have a book patiently waiting on the shelf called “what i think about when i think about running” by my favorite author, haruki murakami. i keep thinking the phrase “what i think about when i think about walking” in my head. when i’m walking, i feel an openness and a freeness that i don’t get in the rest of my life. there isn’t laundry waiting, i don’t have just one more spreadsheet to build and there is no email that needs checking. i’m just walking, even better if it’s under a blue sky.
i spend so much of my life indoors looking at a computer screen (and don’t get me wrong, i like computers and i even mostly like my job–no one likes theirs all the time). it feels so good to be outside and in the middle of winter, it’s a treat to experience. i love the taste and the feel fo the fresh air. i life in the city so it’s only so fresh but it’s not recycled. you can’t hear the constant drone of the big office vents.
one particularly nice thing about walking in the winter is that it’s generally very quiet. if it’s cold enough, you get the crunch of the snow. you may hear a few birds chirping if it’s the right time of day. you get a certain kind of peace that falls on the neighborhood though that you don’t get in the summer and it should be appreciated.
that said, i’m really looking forward to spring hurrying up and getting here. it’ll be nice to have warmer weather, melting everything. one more month or so and we’ll get it. just gotta hang in a little longer.
Comments
Leave a Reply
