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What wild weather! Yesterday a slicing cold wind with heavy snow squalls. This morning a hard freeze. This afternoon temps in the 60s on tempestuous air. Tomorrow, so I'm told, a winter storm named Ursula???

Bike ride this afternoon. Applying the sailing advice I give novices, I started out upwind. Occasionally I'd get going pretty well only to plow into a gust that felt like slamming into a fish net stretched across the road. But... The ride home was a different story, and I got back almost before I left.

The NYT had an article today referencing a scientific study of the benefits of walking in nature. In summary, the activity seems to have positive results. There were several hundred comments, all of which I felt obligated to read. In summary, Duh!

So here a few semi-related items:

The World Is Too Much With Us

BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. —John Muir

Peace is every step.
The shining red sun is my heart.
Each flower smiles with me.
How green, how fresh all that grows.
How cool the wind blows.
Peace is every step.
It turns the endless path to joy. —Thitch Nat Han

Solvitur ambulando.