Walks to Remember
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer
HA-H!
Nope, no great thoughts have been conceived in my grey matter, I can assure you!
And I don't much care for Nietzsche's or Schopenhauer's philosophies either...but this particular line sticks in my head.... not to mention the fabulous title! It sounds even better in the German original.... (Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert)..... of course the German title Götzen-Dämmerung is a play on Wagner's opera title Götterdämmerung)
The book however has a section dedicated to aphorisms. Some of them are rather nice though. The rest of the book is mostly about decadence and nihilism and such exclusively Nietzsche-ian thoughts.
I digress....
I don't really know how I slipped into Nietzsche....
That was not my intention.....
I am going to tell you about my morning walks....
We are in a kind of limbo-season - neither summer nor autumn - but no matter, it is beautiful in the mornings...mist, rainbows, heather, geese, mushrooms, berries (yum!!), late flowers, hares, deer... oh, the entire plethora.
What pleasure...As Jane Austen in Persuasion put it:
".....that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling."
Our walking paths in the forests are all lit (to make it easy to walk/jog during our dark winters - in case you were wondering why there are street lights...).
There are free doggy litter bags in case you have forgotten one and need to clean up after your dog...there are of course bins along the paths....
There are also signs marked out for walking (the green one with a walking staff) ... and whether it was a pilgrim walking path in the distant past...(that brown sign with a decorative cross).
The red sign with a whole family and a dog is marked as The Healthy Path...
It is nice to imagine that where I tread today...a thousand others have too and thereby - on another dimension, one is not really alone....
Enjoy the photos!
Signing off for now.
C.S!
(Cresat Scientia)
