“One of my favorite ways to talk with friends is to walk with them.  I love being engaged with the larger world and with each other.  I love having my thought interrupted by the raven sailing in to land on a stone wall.  I love the slow drift of autumn leaves, of snowflakes, of apple blossoms - each in season.  Walking and talking humanize my life, draw it to an ancient and comforting scale.  We live as we move, a step at a time, and there is something in gentle walking that reminds me of how I must live if I am to savor this life that I have been given.”