I’ve followed Craig for a couple of years and like his style of writing. Being able to come along for a walk in Japan was a real treat.
#Snippets I liked
- The goal is simply to do my “job,” to walk the old roads of the Peninsula for thirty, maybe forty days. We’ll see how it goes. I’m in no rush.
- I don’t need a drink, but I need a walk.
- Here it was: to walk, and walk well, and witness the people along the way.
- When walking with someone, the voices in my head are quieted and I miss the chance to turn inward, which is a primary quality and primary purpose of a solo walk. That inward turn.
- Over time, my solo walks became tools, platforms for thinking, for drawing the wider world in closer and making the inner world visible.
- That linguistic gap carried a potential for self-renewal. Move your lips like so and a new self could be built from a fresh set of blocks. This was the promise of the language.