It is important that all meaningful social activities, intense experiences, conversations, and caresses take place when people are standing, sitting, lying down, or walking. One can catch a brief glimpse of others from a car or from a train window, but life takes place on foot. Only “on foot” does a situation function as a meaningful opportunity fo

I have been remembering my mother’s walk. It was a determined walk, but with a light step. I can still hear and feel its decisive, confident rhythm. She loved to walk—in the Minnesota woods, the Norwegian mountains, on beaches everywhere—and she walked hard and long every day until a spate of illnesses slowed her down at the age of ninety. She walk