Walking and running are straight ahead activities. The path can twist and turn but the body follows the eyes’ line of sight. Look ahead walk ahead. Look up the hill run up the hill. Chaos is the antithesis. Run here than there. Turn. Stop. Spin around and go back. Left or right? No order.…
The act of running is quite natural. Almost all biped and quadruped animals do it. In the quadruped world though, running is a necessity. Hunting. Think cheetah, running in a burst of speed to kill its prey. Hunted. Think Thompson’s Gazelle, running, leaping really, to stay alive. When we see an animal running at top…
Walking Home by British poet and writer Simon Armitage is gaining popularity with current reviews in the New York Times (positive) and the Wall Street Journal (trending negative). And now here too. The author, a well known writer in England, walks the Pennine Way, a 270 mile north-south hike across the spine of England, following…
