A phone call this week took me askew, suggesting I reconsider my direction. I was dizzy for a minute and kept walking.
A decision this week took me askew, suggesting I rethink the thinking I’d already thought. I was slowed but did not falter.
”When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps,” Henry David Thoreau wrote, “…submit myself to my instinct to decide for me….”
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Photo ©2013, Jen Payne
Thoreau, Henry David. “Walking,” The Portable Thoreau. New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
Keep walking, Jen. You’re in good company … the saunterers or ‘saints of the earth’ as HD wrote in “Walking”
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Thanks, Scott! Isn’t that a great word: “saunter”?
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Instinct. Your best bet, most times. Pretty pic.
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Yup. Go with your gut. : )
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