MENTAL STROLL

"When you practice walking meditation, you go for a stroll." (Thich Nhat Hanh)

This quote was also be said about keeping a journal. When you write in your journal, you go for a stroll, without purpose or direction, without a travel plan. You start now, and you walk for a while, write for a while, then you stop. You have fragments. The next day you do it again. And some of what you write in your journal will be whole, make sense, and some other things will still only be fragments.

My journals have been all sorts of things in the past and will take all forms in the future. I've done many writing types, filled with tidbits, quotes, titles, bits and pieces of story ideas. A journal can be any of these, and more. They may be experimental, a path for women's healing, a nature lover's field guide notes. I have done daily meditations, long spiritual quests, and searches for the right path to publication. They are all worth keeping--though I doubt anyone will read them when I am gone.

"The purpose of walking meditation is walking medication himself. Going is important, not arriving. (Thich Nhat Hanh)