Walking is something that most of us do every day. For most of us humans, bipedal motion gets us from place to place, while allowing us to remain upright, facing forward freeing our eyes to face towards the horizon. But it is also much more.....
In the following passage from Wanderlust, A history of walking, Rebecca Solnitt, describes every day walking and ritual walking, a kind of walking infused with more-than-transportational-meaning:
"Most of the time walking is merely practical, the unconscious locomotion between two sites. To make walking into an investigation, a ritual, a meditation, is a special subset of walking, physiologicallylike philisophically unlike the way a mail carrier brings the mail and the office worker reaches the train. Which is to say that the subject of walking is, in a sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanins, from erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic" (p. 3).
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