Pre-election walk
My neighborhood is beautiful.
Category: Walking
Topstone circumambulation
I can’t resist a visit to Topstone Park in my childhood hometown of Redding, Connecticut. I like to circumambulate the pond and remember its appeal to me as a young person. Thinking about Natalie...
Wood wide web
I walked in the woods like I did as a child. Exploring, stopping, backtracking, some searching…not trying to exercise or power through it. These are “my woods” — the Crabtree Neck Land Trust property...
doing nothing in nola
Love this writer: Jenny Odell In her how to do nothing article, she writes about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, whose Maintenance Manifesto, 1969 is familiar to me from earlier aimless Internet browsing. We bicycled past a...
2019
Yes, it’s a new year. I feel unsettled. Still cloudy-minded, striving for what, I don’t know. To recapture what can’t be recaptured, to move to an imagined place of deeper meaning. Still making. It’s...
watery hike
Yesterday I tried to repeat a hike I’ve done before from Schoodic Bog trailhead. I couldn’t make it up the little hill to the trailhead parking, too slippery. So I parked along the roadside....
Moody Schoodic
Hiked the Schoodic Bog loop today. A newish trail, just flagged. No bog bridges or signs. But I felt comfortable due to the flagging, Schoodic looking out for me, and my blaze orange hat....