Surprises Around the Bend-
50 Adventurous Walkers-
By Richard A. Hasler-
Makes a good case for walking as a regular spiritual practice that adds richness and depth to our lives.
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"Walking is an essential discipline of thought and spirit. My soul is a traveler afoot in the world. Like Aristotle (whose school was called Peripatetic, after the covered walkway along which he strolled while teaching), I cannot think clearly if I remain too long sedentary," Sam Keen wrote in Hymns to an Unknown God. Richard A. Hasler, a Presbyterian minister who has published five books in the area of preaching, prayer and sports, agrees with those sentiments. In this unusual work, he as assembled the brief inspirational biographies of 50 adventurous walkers including physicians and naturalists, poets and novelists, politicians and teachers, pilgrims and seekers, prophets and social reformers.
It is Hasler's contention the most creative people in history have been walkers. Of course in our car culture, this art is not experienced by all that many people. To the author, walking is a spiritual practice that renews the soul, connects us with the natural world, spurs problem solving, improves self-esteem, heightens alertness, and can be a rewarding aspect of friendship or a love relationship. Others use walking as an opportunity to commune with God or to pray for others. We can learn from Wendell Berry who wrote in his Recollected Essays:
"Today, as always when I am afoot in the woods, I feel the possibility, the reasonableness, the practicality of living in the world in a way that would enlarge rather than diminish the hope of life."
We learn in these pages that Henry David Thoreau felt transformed while sauntering through the natural world. Throughout his lifetime, Carl Jung was an avid walker. William and Dorothy Wordsworth were companion walkers who shared their innermost feelings with each other. Taking a stroll was a regular part of poet Wallace Stevens's daily activities; and walking played a central role for Robert Frost as well. James Michener included "quiet rambles" in his regimen. Theodore Roosevelt's gusto was evident in his point-to-point walks. Dorothy Day prayed while she walked. Hasler makes a good case for walking as a spiritual practice that adds richness and depth to our lives.
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Surprises Around the Bend
50 Adventurous Walkers
By Richard A. Hasler
Richard A. Hasler on nurturing a walking program.
A Book Excerpt on Nurturing
"How do you get started — or restarted — on your own road to shalom, or wholeness of life? First, you must prepare. Ardath Rodale, writing in her book Gifts of the Spirit, tells of her daily walk along the ocean path while vacationing on the island of Maui, Hawaii. One morning she looked across the bay and saw 'a huge, fat, vibrant rainbow!' She came upon a mother and daughter also out for a walk. The mother, who had her head down while she talked, never noticed the rainbow until Ardath brought it to her attention.
"You need to be prepared, always anticipating that there may be gifts all around you, if only you have eyes to see. Preparation begins with a sense of expectancy.
"Second, you must persevere. Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, in his book A Teen's Game Plan for Life, writes about one of his players, Mike Brennan, who was the slowest football player he had ever seen. The players nicknamed him 'Turtle.' But Holtz, who did not like that expression, remarked, 'I thought that was very disparaging to the turtle.' Nevertheless, Brennan persevered and he found a way to use his strengths to offset his slowness. Eventually, he became a varsity player at Notre Dame and played for four years in the National Football League.
"You must learn to persevere and not give up when walking becomes tiring or boring. If the creative walkers in this book teach us anything it is that endurance is something that can be learned through consistent practice. Nothing can be more satisfying than to learn the art of LSD: long, slow, distance walking.
"Third, you need to personalize. Daniel Pink, in his provocative book A Whole New Mind, relates the story of a man who goes into a first-grade class and asks, 'How many artists are there in the room?' All the kids raise their hands. He repeats the question to second-graders, and about three-fourths of the children lift up their hands. When he asks the sixth-graders the same question, however, not a single hand goes up.
"Apparently, it does not take long to convince ourselves that we are not artists or, at least, that we do not want to admit that we are artists. Pink concludes that no matter what field we enter today, we must cultivate an artistic sensibility. He argues, 'We may not all be Dali or Degas. But today we must all be designers.'
"The challenge for you is to design your own walking style and program."
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