I've just joined and I wanted to say hi ( Read more... )

It's gorgeous out today. Later it will be too hot, but I went for a walk when I got up and the temperature was still this side of too hot. There's a nice loop near my house, a set of roads that have very little traffic. It totals up to a little over a mile, and in the last week or two I've been managing to walk it more days than not. Depending ( Read more... )

Went for a LOVELY walk in the late afternoon. From an exercise perspective, I didn't even have to ... because I danced TWO 30 minute sessions at clogging tonight. As my son and I were driving home from class, he remembered going for walks last summer near the local beach. I decided to ask my husband if he wanted to hop in the car with us and go ( Read more... )

I took a 15 minute walk after dinner today to clear my head and heart. It worked a little. I did my usual walk from my house to old town, but less than 1/2 my usual distance. I noticed a lot of sounds: wind chimes, flag poles clanging, birds--lots of birds, dogs barking. I also saw some signs of spring: daffodils, crocuses, grape hyacinth taking ( Read more... )

On Friday the kids and I went to a peace march for Cesar Chavez day. Cesar Chavez fought for the rights of farm workers, and is the Martin Luther King of the Latino community. It had rained all morning, and cleared up by the afternoon, so we walked under the sun, with the smell of wet earth. It was very inspirational as we chanted "Si se puede!" ( Read more... )

So. I'm not pushing on the fitness aspect of walking right now. Because I had dance class on Monday and cleaned like a maniac today, I feel like I'm getting the exercise I need in other ways. I've gone out for very short walks on both days just so that I can come here and say I did it. But, in a bigger sense, I come here because I believe that ( Read more... )

Just a quick one today … but, hey, I got out and about a little ( Read more... )

A dozen early daffodils crowd together near the edge of the sidewalk. Their heads bob together as they gossip and watch whatever shoes come marching by. They whisper about my old, scuffed walking boots.

I wear the kind of shoes that dandelions would approve of, but there aren't any dandelions around.

‘Had an exciting walk today … or maybe joyful would be a better descriptor. In any case, I loaded my mp3 player with just four songs … all of them very fast and very energetic. Together they totaled 15.5 minutes. I hit play and took off. When they finished, I restarted them and turned back toward home ( Read more... )

I haven't take any time to write about the walk we had on Saturday and now I have another to post. I will have a photo from the Saturday walk soon, so I'll just let that go until I've got a bit more energy. Today I squeaked out a walk after ten o'clock. I grabbed my ipod and a flashlight and headed out. I didn't see or hear much due to the late ( Read more... )