Saw Orion tonight for the first time this season. Hey, Old Man, it’s been a while. He and I used to walk the night fields north of campus and we’d talk about life. I’d unload all my concerns and toss them to the sky, and he’d do cartwheels over my head as my feet crunched …
Tag Archives: walk
Dram Amble
If you’ve never taken a walk while intoxicated, I highly recommend it. You have to trust the neighborhood, but only halfway. To make up for your impaired thinking, you have to heighten your senses and be aware of what’s around you. In your hyper-vigilance for dangers in the shadows, you see new things, make observations, …
Stumble
In a world full of people who will gladly roll you if they could do it with impunity, I’m sincerely glad that I live in an area of Austin, Texas where I can stumble through neighborhood streets at 12am and not have somebody run up on me to make sure I don’t turn the corner …
Olfactory Refractory
Texas Ash. Fraxinus albicans. There’s something about this time of year in Austin where night walks are amazing. It’s the smells, the scents, the warm, muggy breezes that carry the quixotic chemistry of life to light up my olfactory bulb, to excite my hippocampus, to carry me calmly into my strolling heaven. It’s more than …