Month: July 2017

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Morning Walk July 24, 2017

A slow start with seriously achy yoga muscles leads to hectic morning made more so when I can’t find my train pass.

As I step onto the sidewalk, I transform into the lead in the Olympic Women’s Racewalking qualifying event, imagining a pack of highly trained athletes behind, pushing me toward ever faster speeds.

Mind over muscles, I tell myself, as my quads and back screech in protest.

My arms swing wildly, and I try to emulate the body form I’ve seen racewalkers take: back straight, move from the hips…I’m glad I wore my most comfortable shoes.

I imagine I look quite serious and earnest, but the reality is probably probably much closer to the Monty Python sketch on Silly Walks, especially with my bright anime hair.

Door to door it’s 1.12 miles, I make it in 16 minutes and find a seat in my favorite car with minutes to spare.

That qualifies.

What did you do?

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Morning Walk July 21, 2017

Something’s wrong with my watch … again … it keeps skipping ahead and I’m disoriented because I feel like I’m moving quickly, despite the evidence presented by the atomically- correct, constantly- updated device on my wrist.

At 15, I recognized the futility of trying to standardize the moments we experience and gave up wearing a watch for 30 years.

They’re useful for catching trains, but beyond that, I’m skeptical.

Because I can, I take a different path today, down a street into what’s called The Design District.

The sidewalks are wide and cobbled with tastefully small pebbles that won’t trip up even the highest heels. The sycamore trees are tall and the broad green canopies shade buildings that look as if they sprung into existence last week.

The illusion of order and peace comes to an abrupt end at the next street where the sidewalk disappears and I have to thread my way carefully through construction and cars in various states of motion.

A series of reflections in some windows appears to be trying to spell something out, but I’m in too much of a hurry to read it.

What did you see?

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