Its own measure
The brick path to the river was inviting in the warm October sunshine.
“A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way. There are things we will never see, unless we walk to them.” – Thomas A. Clark
On the last Sunday of October, it was an amazing 80 degrees outside at the warmest part of the day. The morning had brought hard and steady rain, but by noon the sun emerged and the landscape was quickly transformed. It was the perfect excuse to get out and walk.
At the end of that day, my Fitbit told me I had walked about five and a half miles. Since I typically walk the equivalent of two miles even on days when I don’t take walks, I estimate that my strolling amounted to about three miles. I wasn’t really paying attention. My walk, as Clark says, was its own measure.
I’ll let the photos do the talking from here on in. All these were taken on my walk that day, in my northern Virginia neighborhood on the Potomac River. Join me for a quick virtual tour!
This post was first published seven years ago today. I didn’t know it then, but it was to be the last time I ever wrote a post on a regular schedule here. That month, my life was shattered by another, more private event of trauma and grief, the fallout of which continues to play out today in the lives of several people close to me.
The fact that this is the last post I wrote means, of course, that this is the last post I can re-blog without starting in on a third posting. It was January 12 of the following year that I began re-posting the daily entries from seven years prior, and I have continued that schedule, reposting seven years later, until now.
Where do I go from here? I haven’t yet decided, though I’m exploring various options. You can leave me your advice in the comments, or address me privately at this email address: defeatdespair@verizon.net
No matter where this blog goes (or doesn’t go) from here, I carry all my faithful readers in my heart with undying gratitude.
The blog is not designed for viewing on cell phones, but you can get a less distorted version of the photos if you click on the “view on blog” link at the top right of the screen. The original post, comments and photo are linked, along with two other related posts, at the individual post views. These links to related posts, and their thumbnail photos, do not appear in the blog feed; they are only visible when viewing the individual posts by clicking on each one. I have no idea why, nor do I know how they choose the related posts. That’s just the way WordPress does things.
