Letters to the Editor
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Ok so who will be the first LW...
to disparage GK and say how out of touch he is, what a hyprocrite he is, or how offensive his language is?
I mean, long schnozz? Are you going to let him get away with that?
I await the "how dare you, sir"...
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start walking into life instead of driving by it.
i live in the city and have never owned a car. in fact, i don't have my license. i don't need to drive when i can walk to work, take the train, or the bus. i often chuckle to myself as i walk passed the lines of cars stuck in traffic. ha ha, i think.
i get to smell the flowers, make eye contact with cute strangers, and know the locals in my neighborhood diner, all things i cherish every day.
for those who say they need a car for work, move closer to humanity and start walking into life instead of driving by it.
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bored! lonely! bruised too!
'take a walk?' i suggested to her'
'take a hike!' she suggested to me.
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Amen
Amen to that, though I must admit to using a bicycle for the longer distances.
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Prairie Car Companion
When I'm in a city, my car seems like a prison cell. I can't wait to park it and get out.
In a completely unrelated item. One of the sweetest experiences life has to offer is to be driving on a long, dark stretch of highway and listening to A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. In fact I only listen to it when I'm in my car.
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walks rock
Great piece. I think the best walks are those with no destination, and no time-table to keey.. just walking for the sake of enjoying the outdoors, and seeing the sights, taking things easy. I think that feeling was really captured in this article, with the many thoughts that meander through your head on a walk as you people-watch.
To the LW who walks to work every day - I applaud you, and only wish that I had the same option. Sadly its the car for me, because I figure in life I'll be changing jobs more than changing houses, so moving just to be closer to work isnt really an option. Since I'm no longer in the snowy north though, I think I might get a motorbike/vespa to enjoy all the fun of being outside, with the ability to actually get to work :) Nothing like a fresh breeze and a zippy ride. Feel bad for everyone in the snow-lands who don't have these options (lets face it, public transport is pretty non-existant outside the major cities in the US, and most of us don't live in those cities. Also, if you've got snow, you aren't biking to work...) I think its important for people to remember to take some time outside of their cars when they can though, and enjoy wandering and exploring :)
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Thank you, GK
Just what the doctor ordered!
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Re: Ok so who will be the first LW...
To disparage GK and say how out of touch he is, what a hyprocrite he is, or how offensive his language is?
I mean, long schnozz? Are you going to let him get away with that?
I await the "how dare you, sir"...
Ok, I'll do it.
"Long Schnozz."
"Mine is to wander, which is what a writer does."
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And who will be the first LW
To have the cojones to use his or her real name on this fearless forum?
New rule.
Anonymouse.
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good walk
luminous and eloquent...shred of the patronizing junk he often writes, GK soars with this one. excuse me while i go out for a walk, not in NY but in humbler but no less diverse singapore.
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Lake Wobegon goes to the Big Apple?
I agree completely.
I walk to work around four days a week (not when it rains, or when I have to visit a client). You see people as they are. It is a great stress alleviator, especially at the end of a rough day, and the exercise is free. We chose our current home to be in walking distance of the office.
I once got to do the same for two wonderful years in Commuter City itself, greater Los Angeles. I became a full-time telecommuter and moved my office close to home, since I did not want to move my home at the time. I used to laugh as I walked past the huge line of cars at the traffic light at Torrance and Western twice a day. My car went from 300 miles a week to maybe 50.
We have also heard Mozart in a subway in Kiev, Ukraine, in front of the old Rathaus in Goettingen, Germany, and on the street in parts of LA. Is that not "normal" for a cultural center? Don't you get that in Milwaukee?
Hey, I used my real name...
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That's why I love the city
Thank you, Garrison. Having lived in NYC for twelve years, I often feel that my automobile-less existence is often more in touch with life and the world around me than my childhood was, zipping around the countryside in a car.
Walking is wonderful, and if more humans took advantage of our nature-given mode of transportation, the world would be a better place!
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Thanks
From a homesick New Yorker far from home...but luckily in another beautiful, walkable city which I will go out into (once I do the dishes).
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Ah, the smells of spring...
I'm guessing after the stir GK caused a couple of weeks back, this column is nice, safe pablum, n'est-ce pas?
Where I live, the smells of spring include a nearby chicken farm, fields covered with cow manure, and sneeze-making pine pollen that have turned all things yellowish-green for the past couple of weeks. You can't get any of those walking around Manhattan. I could walk to the grocery store, I suppose, but it's an eight-mile round trip and the ice cream would never make it. So much for waxing rapturous whilst in the big city.
To the LW who said, "Walking is wonderful, and if more humans took advantage of our nature-given mode of transportation, the world would be a better place!", I quite agree. If all the armed forces on either side of the current conflict had had to walk to Iraq and Afghanistan, the world would indeed be a better place. Our side would have been stopped by Long Island Sound.