2012-01-10 An Ode to Walking (Part Two)

(without a mention of high gas prices)
I number it among my blessings that my father had no car…The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his own two feet, not by the standard of the internal combustion engine …

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2012-01-09 An Ode to Walking (Part One)

A thoughtful essay lifting the merits of walking recently came to my attention. As written, it is too long for this column so it will be presented in  three columns. ER
What follows is the kind of congratulations-to-self that occasionally sits in my mind when I find myself walking while others drive. Nevertheless, it might serve as a kind of proposal for enshrining walking as a Christian form of transportation.

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