The Winds Whisper to Us Walkers

"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."
 -  Frederic Gros

"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk."
-   Raymond Inmon

"The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man.  Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession."
-   Henry Theodore Tuckerman

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
-   Edgar Abbey

The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World.  By Good Buffalo Eagle.  Anazi Foundation Book.  Berrett-Koehler Pubs., BK Life, 2013.  120 pages.  ISBN: 978-1609949198.  Light, Wind, Water, Stone, Plant, Animals, We.  

A Philosophy of Walking  By Frederic Gros.  Translated from the French by John Howe.  Verso, 2014.  288 pages.  ISBN: 978-1781682708.   

The Ways of Walking  Compiled by Mike Garofalo.  Quotes, Sayings, Information, Bibliography, Links, Notes, Observations.  


Yesterday, during my morning walk, the winds were blowing from the southeast at a speed of 15 t0 25 miles per hours.  The sky was filled with large dark rain filled clouds.  It gently rained occasionally.  I was immersed in Seven Realms: Light, Wind, Water, Stone, Plant, Animals, and We. Another "peak experience" based on 'Being-Values' ... as per Abraham Maslow's analysis. 

Shown below, in a photograph from July, is my daily walking path. It is a .35 mile, asphalt paved, cul-de-sac, Kilkenny Lane, in Red Bluff, California.  Kilkenny Lane moves in an east-west direction from the front of my home to Highway 99 West.  I practice Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung in the paved circular area in front of my house shown the shadowed foreground of this picture.  I rarely encounter a car on Kilkenny Lane.