Monday 13 April 2020

Walking

I noticed this topically beautiful piece in Maclean's this morning and felt a need to share it:
"Walking is a combination of movement, humility, balance, curiosity, smell, sound, light, inner silence and—if you walk far enough—longing. A feeling which reaches for something, without finding it. The Portuguese, Cape Verdeans and Brazilians have an untranslatable word for this longing: saudade. It is a word that encompasses love, pain and happiness. It can be the thought of something joyful that disturbs you, or something disturbing that brings you plenitude."
Erling Kagge  -  Norwegian explorer 

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