Earth on foot 18 18 September 2025 A lithe squirrel, hesitant, makes his way over red bricks. An acorn fills his tiny mouth. I see him a moment later, far up the pine in the neighbor’s yard. I thought I was alone here, but there’s an awful lot going on around me, come to think … Read more
Earth on foot 17 September 11, 2025 At a cafe, Baltimore, Maryland, near Johns Hopkins University, 11am, cool, cloudy Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. … Read more
earth on foot 16 4 Sept 2025 Crickets’ song, a cool breeze through the open window, and an occasional peal of laughter: I’m back in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, where even the dogs are considerate. And if they aren’t, their owners warn, “She’s a waving dog,” and wave at their puppy to demonstrate. “Not … Read more
For running! earth on foot 15 27 August 2025 27 August 2025 I threw my right leg out from under the duvet cover last Saturday morning and sighed. It was 5:30AM, and a grey dawn light filled the spare bedroom in Brooklyn where I slept. My daughter’s apartment was a 20-minute walk from the start … Read more
earth on foot 14 21 august 2025 I’m thinking of England. Worton Park, Oxford, specifically, where our group stayed, cooked, and celebrated a special wedding. One morning, I awoke to see a tee shirt drying in the sunshine outside of our window. Since I love sleuthing, I surmised that S., David’s cousin, had already taken … Read more
earth on foot 12 13 augusto 2025 Busy squirrels overhead somewhere in the dogwood tree, nibbling seeds—can’t tell precisely what, but I hear their sharp cracks. Soon I’ll be in my gardening attire—green slip-on shoes, green gloves to match, the straw traveling hat my mother-in-law got me—on a sultry summer day, but now, after a … Read more
Koblenz to Baltimore. earth on foot 11 On our last day in Germany, I took the IC train an hour from Mainz to Koblenz. I’d been told the night before, at a beer hall notable for its 5-foot-tall beer steins, that it was a lovely city with lots of history and great apple strudel. On … Read more
earth on foot 10 The population of Mainz, Germany, is approximately 223,000 as of 2023. It is the largest city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.As of 2025, Berlin has an estimated population of approximately 3.58 million people, making it the largest city in Germany and the most populous city in the European Union. The city … Read more
earth on foot 9 23 July 2025 “What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wilderness? Let them be left, Oh let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” — Inversnaid, by Gerard Manley Hopkins (This post dedicated to my amazing mom) Some spaces, both mental … Read more
earth on foot 8 16 july 2025 Hiking and running around the verdant land that is Slovenia, I saw reminders of World War I, World War II, and the country’s independence in 1991 (it was part of the former Yugoslavia and became independent in a 10-day war in that year). An example of this is … Read more