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—SDW Members: The SDW Co-Writing Sessions will return sooner than I originally announced. We will start back during the 4th-ish week of July—July 23rd through 29th then meet during the 2nd-ish and 4th-ish weeks of every month moving forward. The schedule for July and August is coming very soon! I look forward to writing with you!
—SDW Members: Have you seen the latest posts at A Writer’s Diary for Members Only?
—Learn more about the SDW Membership here.

“The high converse, the high adventures, will be in the country of the mind.” - Kenneth Grahame

“Nature’s particular gift to the walker, through the semi-mechanical act of walking — a gift no other form of exercise seems to transmit in the same high degree — is to set the mind jogging, to make it garrulous, exalted, a little mad maybe — certainly creative and suprasensitive, until at last it really seems to be outside of you and as if it were talking to you whilst you are talking back to it. Then everything gradually seems to join in, sun and the wind, the white road and the dusty hedges, the spirit of the season, whichever that may be, the friendly old earth that is pushing life firth of every sort under your feet or spell-bound in a death-like winter trance, till you walk in the midst of a blessed company, immersed in a dream-talk far transcending any possible human conversation. Time enough, later, for that…; here and now, the mind has shaken off its harness, is snorting and kicking up heels like a colt in a meadow.”

- Kenneth Grahame, via The Marginalian

—Make a list of 10 things you thought about while you were walking.—Make a list of 10 things you didn’t think about while you were walking.
—How did the walk affect your mood?
—How did the walk affect your creative ideas?
—Describe the weather during your walk?
—What did you feel in your body during your walk?

If you like, use your notes to start a new poem, story, essay, or a letter to a friend.

Want More?
Read “Walking as Creative Fuel: A Splendid 1913 Celebration of How Solitary Walks Enliven ‘The Country of the Mind’” at The Marginalian.

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