What Works: Solo playdates
In my column about nonnegotiables, I talked about Julia Cameron’s concept from The Artist’s Way of the “artist date” — where you make a playdate…
walk in the park
Take your risks now, as you grow older you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn’t even on. — Amy Poehler
FAST from unnecessary transportation today — walk and take the stairs when you have the chance. PRAY for an appreciation of your age and stage…
If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles. — C. S. Lewis
Take a “prayer walk” today. Take a small walk outside that you do not normally do and realize God’s hand in the beauty of nature.
So we saunter toward the Holy Land; till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, so warm and serene and golden as on a bank-side in Autumn. — Henry David Thoreau, from “Walking”
Today, take a slow walk and appreciate the natural surroundings.