Culture of Walking--Creative thinking

Journal Entry, Oct. 8, 2009: Weight = 173.2; Coinage = $.86, 26 pennies, 1 nickel, 3 dimes, 1 quarter.

Journal Entry, Oct. 9, 2009: Weight = 171.0; Coinage = $1.14, all pennies, 1 wheat, 1 asphalt; Glass bottles = 9; Ground Scores = 4; Several penny scatters and a big haul at the 17th street Canal.

Journal Entry, Oct. 10, 2009: Weight = 173.0; Coinage = $1.78, 18 pennies, 3 nickels, 7 dimes, 3 quarters; Glass bottle = 1; Best Coinage find = bumper crop of curb finds, 24 cents residual found walking to a neighborhood garage sale. For my son-in-law, purchased the book How to Live with a Neurotic Dog.


Journal Entry, Oct. 10, 2009: Weight = 173.0; Coinage = $1.78, 18 pennies, 3 nickels, 7 dimes, 3 quarters; Glass bottle = 1; Best Coinage find = bumper crop of curb finds, 24 cents residual found walking to a neighborhood garage sale. For my son-in-law, purchased the book How to Live with a Neurotic Dog.

Feature Entry: While reading Anita Brookner’s book Lewis Percy, the MoneyWalker was stimulated to write in the margin, “a walking culture, through the observations of Brookner and her characters.” Her characters walk early and often. On page 12, it was about shoes, about the elements, and about loneliness: “Conscious now of the dark, of the cold, and of the thin soles of his shoes, worn out with all the walking he imposed upon himself…”

To have fun, Google the expression “the culture of walking.” I especially liked this one by Bryan Appleyard a British blogger. He observed:

Nietzsche wrote somewhere that 'Only thoughts which come from walking have any value'. Nuanced and understated as ever - but he's onto something. I'm convinced there's an essential link between thought - in particular the processes that turn thought into words - and walking. And I suspect that the thoughts and language of a walking culture take different shapes from those of a sedentary culture, i.e. the one we now inhabit.

Reminder to self—it is time to buy new walking shoes. Then if I can just capture a few well shaped walking thoughts for my blogs perhaps I can get beyond these writing blocks that are beginning to plaque the MoneyWalker.

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