I try to get out for a walk every day. I think it’s done a great deal to help maintain peace of mind, a sense of time, and a connection with my local environment. Sometimes, though, I’d like to venture a little further abroad and take in more than just the local sights. I’ve never had opportunity to do any really serious hiking like this. I wonder how long it would take to train for a five-month hike. And what would it be like to be able to totally dedicate that amount of time to an experience like that?
Anyhoo, here’s the highlights in three minutes. Man, do my legs feel sore after watching that.
Time for a beer. 🍺
Happy National Chocolate Chip Day! Go out and bake yourself a batch of cookies. They go great with black coffee, I can assure you.
What you have here in this book then is a gathering of dandelions from all those years. The wine metaphor which appears again and again in these pages is wonderfully apt. I was gathering images all of my life, storing them away, and forgetting them. Somehow I had to send myself back, with words as catalysts to open the memories out and see what they had to offer.
Ray Bradbury, Just This Side of Byzantium — An Introduction, Dandelion Wine
Summer doesn’t officially arrive for a while, but after an hour out in the Texas sun on my quarantine walk, you can start to feel the sweat pooling around your neck and dripping down your scalp. I saw somebody on Twitter recommending this as a good time to start reading (or re-reading) Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. Why not?
