Walking

 It's always surprising to me how much better I feel when I get out to walk. How much better my brain works. This has been challenging for me lately because days have consisted of 12 hours of writing on the computer and the only thing I want to do after that is binge-watch junk on Netflix like Gossip Girl. 

Springay and Truman (2017) considered walking to be essential for embodied knowledge because it created a sensuous and "rhythmic understanding of place" (p. 31). Sound artists also use walking narratives to describe "emplacement" (Pink, 2015, p. 74) or emotional attachment to environment.

With so much engagement with screens and online spaces, it becomes important to get out and reconnect to the road, to the earth, and to sense of place to remember who I am.

Tomorrow, I plan to walk down to the river and look for eagles.

Pink, S. (2015). Doing sensory ethnography. Sage.

Springay, S. & Truman, S. (2017). A transmaterial approach to walking methodologies: Embodiment, affect, and sonic art performance. Body & Society, 23(4), 27-58. https://doi.org/10.11771/1357034X17732626

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