Wednesday, 04 February 2009

• WRW Month - Day 4

  From my summer adventures along Lake Erie, you know that I love to walk! It is the one form of exercise I hope I'll still be able to do when I'm 85 - and doctors all say it's great for you! Plus, who doesn't love to just get out and move a little bit?! When it's warm, I walk along Lake Erie; when it's cold, I'm inside at the Henry Ford Museum; when I feel like wearin' my ugly lime green sweats and not going out in public, I walk at home with Leslie Sansone's "Walk Away the Pounds." (1 mile per 15 minutes - a nice enjoyable, quick, walking "work-out" DVD)

  That is why the first "W" in "WRW Month" stands for "Walking!" (However, remember that any form of exercise is considered acceptable under that heading!) My best ideas come when I walk; my prayers are undistracted when I walk; I truly LOOK at God's creation when I walk; and sometimes, when I get to walk with others, I even enjoy the company of a good friend when I walk! So today's thoughts are just a few of my favorite quotations about the pleasures of walking! Enjoy - and then go for a walk! (I'm headed off to do some errands for the rest of my lunch break, but plan to enjoy a walk at the museum later this afternoon!)

  
  Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.  ~Henry David Thoreau
  

  I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

  After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.  ~George Macauley Trevelyan

  
  The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.  The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.  ~Mark Twain
  

  Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying.  To solve a problem, walk around.  ~Gregory McNamee

  
  In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.  ~John Muir

  
  We live in a fast-paced society.  Walking slows us down.  ~Robert Sweetgall
  

  (And here is my fave...) I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.  ~John Burroughs

   

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