Two Loop Walk #2

I am so busy I was tempted not to walk today but I looked forward to it all morning so I took the break.

A raven cawed as soon as we stepped out in the yard. Warm again today, minus 10, and overcast but. Unlike yesterday, the sky has in it the faintest hint of powder blue. There are rabbit tracks in the snow.

I walk with Bill in silence through the still landscape. We spend a lot of time in silence and I have learned to love the velvet and companionable texture of it. Silence is a great teacher of the heart. Today it seems to tell me “you are living your life in this moment, with this step, with this breath.”

I see how the snow fits the tendrils of a sapling birch like a glove.

We take a short cut home and walk arm in arm down the cleared road. I almost feel like a grown-up.