{"id":4673,"date":"2016-02-13T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T00:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2016-02-14T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:00:24","slug":"a-winter-walk-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=4673","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Walk at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beach<\/a>I sit a lot, don’t you? And now, with winter cold and my aging dog, I move even less. For 14 years, Tetley has enthusiastically forced me up and out a few times a day. Alas, he is fading. The days of him pulling me the long route up hills for a real work-out, are over. Now I can barely cajole him half a block. I anticipate heartbreak ahead…<\/p>\n

\"Tet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But enough of that – it’s just that Tetley is content to sleep and last Sunday, I too could have lolled on the couch with the newspapers all day.<\/p>\n

But I needed a good walk – to move my bones and get my heart pumping — \u00a0hours of sitting at work, at home, in the car, makes my hips ache. Although I love moving through the world by foot, on a wintery day when I don’t have<\/em> to do anything, I’m often content to never step over the threshold. But look…<\/p>\n

\"beach<\/a>Ten minutes drive from my house, I get to walk here!<\/p>\n

Unlike this frigid weekend, last Sunday was balmy for February, the light squinting-bright. I walked alone, breathing and thinking and enjoying the crunch of snow, sand and the squish of mud underfoot. I walked down to the shoreline so I could hear the lapping waves. I passed fewer than 20 other walkers. We greeted each other with bright smiles as if we’d landed in Charlie’s Chocolate Factory together – a shared glee at being here on a February day.<\/p>\n

\"sunny<\/a>Filling my lungs with the cold sea air and the light, oh the changing light! Why am I not up at 5:30 every morning to walk briskly around this sweet course, breathing deeply, absorbing the beauty and peace in this city where I landed by accident, 20 years ago? Or at least at 5:30 PM when I’m done with work and catch a sunset while I’m at it. I should do that.<\/p>\n

\"trees<\/a>Sometimes I think about venturing back out into the wide-world again, to find a warmer, less expensive life maybe? Maybe. Then I recall that when I wandered the globe I longed for a\u00a0place<\/em>. On this Sunday walk, with a surge of joy, a breath of cold winter air, an earful of seagull screams, I recognize – I am here. And for now, it sure will do.<\/p>\n

Where do you walk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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