The answer is...a complete sense of calm and a feeling of quiet emotions...serenity. The question is why I am hiking down dark country roads when most everyone else is turning their pillow in readiness for the last two hours of sleep. Or maybe the answer lies in the wrestling match on my belly at 4:00 o'clock each morning between my two dogs. I prefer to think I would get up for the walk without my wake up call.
Usually, as we make our way along the road, the sights and sounds of the wild are everywhere. However, occasionally, and I have no way to predict when, a slight, quiet breeze comes from the south and everything is still and quiet. It's a deep quiet that exaggerates any sound. The only sounds I hear are from the threesome traveling down the road. The sound of each of my steps is a jackhammer hitting the gravel. The easy panting of Patience and Violet are dual locomotives charging down the track.
I love nature but I am fueled by the serenity days. Of course this all comes to a halt near the end of our walk when we are scared to the ditch by a gravel truck late for work.
Today's tip is picking a walking course. The choices are pretty much loop or out-and-back, unless you are doing some elaborate drop off or pick up thing. My advice is diversity. Some may like the comfort of routine, the security blanket route, but I believe altering the course each day, even if by a few hundred feet, is good for the mind, body and soul.
And as my friend Larry the Communicator would say, that's what I know about that!
Usually, as we make our way along the road, the sights and sounds of the wild are everywhere. However, occasionally, and I have no way to predict when, a slight, quiet breeze comes from the south and everything is still and quiet. It's a deep quiet that exaggerates any sound. The only sounds I hear are from the threesome traveling down the road. The sound of each of my steps is a jackhammer hitting the gravel. The easy panting of Patience and Violet are dual locomotives charging down the track.
I love nature but I am fueled by the serenity days. Of course this all comes to a halt near the end of our walk when we are scared to the ditch by a gravel truck late for work.
Today's tip is picking a walking course. The choices are pretty much loop or out-and-back, unless you are doing some elaborate drop off or pick up thing. My advice is diversity. Some may like the comfort of routine, the security blanket route, but I believe altering the course each day, even if by a few hundred feet, is good for the mind, body and soul.
And as my friend Larry the Communicator would say, that's what I know about that!
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