"The sum of the whole is this: walk
and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen
our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours
from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily
and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far
gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by
earnest walking,--hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk
as boys."
- Charles Dickens
The Ways of Walking
"It’s all still there in heart and
soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure–they
will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come."
- Edward Abbey
When I am not scheduled to work at my part-time job
for the elementary school district, I get outdoors and start walking at
6 am. In between each lap of my walking track (.6 miles round trip
[pictured below]) I practice Taijiquan forms [e.g., Sun Style Single
Whip Left pictured below].
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