May 3

For those of us working to increase our creativity, it is always good to be out and about, especially on our feet. Walking, the simplest of tools, is among the most profound. It makes us larger than we are. When we walk, we wake up our consciousness. We enliven our senses. We arrive at a sense of well-being. We experience “conscious contact” with a power greater than ourselves. That still, small voice is automatically amplified a footfall at a time. “Solvitur ambulando,” St. Augustine of Hippo is said to have remarked. “It is solved by walking.”