Love this post, which took me back to walking around the Duboce Triangle with my son in a stroller. I really need to try running/walking without headphones. I'm scaaarrrredddd....
I think stroller walks with a new (or new-ish) baby are indelibly burned into every new (or new-ish) mom's memory. Seriously, I can tell you my routes from two-plus decades ago!
Walking (no more running for me unless I'm being chased by a bear) without headphones is scary at first but worth it. It's a whole thing. I'm kinda mad at myself for not figuring it out earlier.
I like the Circe reference! I go back and forth with the headphones and I jot down ideas while biking. Very relatable. We all have next ideas about Palo Alto and we all struggled a bit. Okay, some us struggled a lot. Your memoir was amazing.
Boris, thank you—for your kind words and for picking up on the Circe reference. There's something surprisingly and deeply meditative about moving through space (I find the car sometimes works as well, and I can totally see how the bike would) without extraneous noise.
I loved this piece! (I would write more effusively, but it’s the end of the day and my brain has liquefied. But I related completely to your sentiments.)
Amen to walking, and to doing it without headphones! I get so many great ideas that way ... that and while gardening. Plus who wants to miss the goats? (I can only hope to spot anything half so cool hidden in my neighborhood foliage).
You never know what might be lurking in your neighborhood foliage! As we've learned from Dr. Seuss, "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." :-) I love that you get your ideas from walking AND gardening. I suspect the only thoughts that would come to me while gardening would be along the lines of "WHY HAVE I KILLED EVERYTHING?" (Ooh, that could be the title of a screenplay for a movie I will never watch :-))
I so love your posts. I always ran with music but now that I too am a walker, I do music/podcasts 50% and nothing 50%.
Out of curiosity: is the nothing 50% creatively productive or nah?
Love this post, which took me back to walking around the Duboce Triangle with my son in a stroller. I really need to try running/walking without headphones. I'm scaaarrrredddd....
I think stroller walks with a new (or new-ish) baby are indelibly burned into every new (or new-ish) mom's memory. Seriously, I can tell you my routes from two-plus decades ago!
Walking (no more running for me unless I'm being chased by a bear) without headphones is scary at first but worth it. It's a whole thing. I'm kinda mad at myself for not figuring it out earlier.
The problem with no headphones is that I just discovered that Season 6 of the Normal Gossip podcast is out. 😉
Um. Why did you have to tell me about this? So much for walking uninterrupted.
sorry not sorry ;-)
I like the Circe reference! I go back and forth with the headphones and I jot down ideas while biking. Very relatable. We all have next ideas about Palo Alto and we all struggled a bit. Okay, some us struggled a lot. Your memoir was amazing.
Boris, thank you—for your kind words and for picking up on the Circe reference. There's something surprisingly and deeply meditative about moving through space (I find the car sometimes works as well, and I can totally see how the bike would) without extraneous noise.
Walking without headphones: foundations of EMDR, just sayin’
I loved this piece! (I would write more effusively, but it’s the end of the day and my brain has liquefied. But I related completely to your sentiments.)
Amen to walking, and to doing it without headphones! I get so many great ideas that way ... that and while gardening. Plus who wants to miss the goats? (I can only hope to spot anything half so cool hidden in my neighborhood foliage).
You never know what might be lurking in your neighborhood foliage! As we've learned from Dr. Seuss, "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." :-) I love that you get your ideas from walking AND gardening. I suspect the only thoughts that would come to me while gardening would be along the lines of "WHY HAVE I KILLED EVERYTHING?" (Ooh, that could be the title of a screenplay for a movie I will never watch :-))