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Coddiwompling as a way of writing: To walk is to experience the landscape – and myself within the landscape – as different, fresh, and peculiarly alive to that moment in space and time…

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Fox trails from a Welsh valley

I imagine the rabbit’s nose twitching in confused over-drive at the snow’s suppression of scent. I match my steps with it, scrying for impressions, as though the rabbit were an invisible familiar leading me further along the boundary. I hoof snow all too audibly. Under the fence, and joining the rabbit’s tracks are the prints of the fox…

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Path-finding

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings)

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"And what a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness... When I relive dynamically the road that 'cimbed' the hill, I am quite sure that the road itself had muscles, or rather, counter-muscles." (Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space)

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