Since I began working full-time from home after starting my own business, Kona (my pup) and I have gotten in a pretty good routine of taking a "loop" at lunch time followed by him napping while I read a bit. This usually coincides well with getting the mail as the mail truck usually arrives in the neighborhood just as we're heading through to our little path.
My neighborhood is the last one before you get to the County Line and it is - at least for a little while longer - the last one before you get to farm land again. So, it's as far out on the edge of the city as this country girl can get and still qualify for city services.
We walk west through the neighborhood before making a curve at the pond which takes us out to this sidewalk where we head back east towards our place. While we walk it nearly every day, there are things I would get wrong (or at least would have before today) if you'd asked me. For example, I would have told you there are no power lines out there and that those are all underground. While it's true that all the ones in the neighborhood are all underground, these clearly are not. And, Kona likes to stop and check out nearly all of them on nearly every walk so there really is no excuse for me not to have known they were there except this is my thinking path.
I do some of my best thinking out here. Writing ideas percolate on this path. Problems I'm working on for clients get solved on this path. New approaches to something that didn't yet seem right to me pop out in my brain. All of that happens out here. As Kona and I walk along the concrete path and I fail to notice all the things around me.
When Kona was a baby, I didn't think we'd ever get to the point where he had the stamina to walk this path. And then we had to get to the point where he didn't just run around like a crazy dog the whole time. And then our final battle was over him wanting to lay down and eat every pine cone along the path. But now, even this beautiful specimen doesn't deter him. That said, the Canadian Geese are back and I have to keep my eyes peeled and steer him away from all the not so precious gifts they leave on the sidewalk so that he doesn't take to one of those.
The thing that struck me all throughout my neighborhood today - and especially along the path was how much wind we've had lately and all the sticks that are littering the grassy areas at the moment. It won't do much good to clean things up as there are high winds predicted all this week but hopefully next week we can get out and gather up all the sticks and make the yards nice and clean again.
Thanks for joining me along my thinking path on today's Wednesday Walk.
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