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Daily Walk: Octember Rain

I walked a bit over a mile in Cherokee Park, Louisville this morning as the sun rose behind clouds and rain. I’m still rehabbing from my knee replacements (left knee on May 10, right on September 15). I walked over 4 miles in Iroquois Park Monday before last, but I was wrecked for two days after, so I’m dialing back a bit. I’m doing better than many people do at this point, I have good range of motion, can walk, drive, get up and down stairs, get my pants on without sitting down, and so forth, but I still have some pain, and get fatigued. The goal is still walking the Camino as a pilgrim from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela, and then to Finisterre. So, I keep walking the path.

Daily Walk:

Yesterday I walked the Elk Lick Trail in the Bernheim Research Forest. This druid sycamore stood in the middle of the lick, its feet wet, sunk in its stone bed, to my eye one of Tolkien’s Ents paused to take a long drink. Stepping from rock to rock, my foot slipped and the stream’s other waters flowed into my shoe. I felt Heraclitus’ smirk like a tick on my back.

Pilgrim’s progress: 13,810 steps, 5.4 miles. Going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it, on my way to Finisterre.