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I love walking and will walk nearly anywhere. The mind goes further than the feet. Steven Wright says anywhere is walking distance if you have the time. A dancer friend once told me something one of their instructors told them - there is no walking, only constant falling.
Dec 11, 2023
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If you have a dog, walk them! If not, walk anyway! I have found my whole life that walking is the best way to feed my mind, body, and soul simultaneously… and to see and discover any new city. I travel a lot with my films, and sometimes I clock in 13 miles in a day… On any day at home, it’s a sacred time, as the sun sets and we walk our dogs. But if I can take care of phone calls, listen to podcasts, do Zooms and catch up with my partner and friends while moving my feet down the street, waving at neighbors and taking in the natural beauty that is waiting to be discovered around every corner - I will choose that any day. Wandering around a city is also our favorite way to experience any city in the world.
Jan 16, 2025
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moving from place to place is the most delightful activity, I think -
walking, thinking about how you walk - how the way you walk conveys something about you to the world -
Thinking about where you place your weight when you step and how it changes the lines and angles of your body -
what a miracle to have a body that carries you forth into the dawn!
Sep 12, 2024
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Even though I consider myself adaptable—to a fault!—and could live without most things, being able to walk absolutely everywhere I want to go keeps the good feelings going. I am so scared of the inevitability that one day my body will not support that (but I plan to survive that too).
Jun 27, 2024
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there is a simplicity that is missed in burgers when a bar tries to gussy them up and sell them for upwards of $15. All they really need is American cheese and some onions pressed into the patties as they cook. Shout out to White Mana.
Dec 11, 2023
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Shortly after moving to New York I read (and re-read) Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York. He wrote it as a retroactive manifesto for the city that needed one and didn’t have one, but to me it reads like this really poetic and at times existential critique of the absurdity of NYC. The scale, the numbers and statistics, the unprecedented “grid”, why the city is the way it is, what lie beneath, and so on. Dave and I work in historic building restoration and getting to see the intricate inner-workings of how these old wooden structures are built is both deeply fascinating and horrifying.
Dec 11, 2023