A TUESDAY FEATURE
host: Muskaan Ahuja
guest editor: Hifsa Ashraf
GOING FOR A WALK?
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like to walk daily in the evening for an hour and it’s quite soothing to unwind the routine work of a day. During my walk, I let my senses experience something unique or different in nature i.e. an unknown fragrance from somewhere of an unknown flower, a butterfly that crosses my path, a cloud that has a unique shape.
Basho travelled a lot and shared his sense of uniqueness in nature through his poems.
moon and snow
seem to be ignoring each other
end of the year
-- Matsuo Basho
from the plum-scented air
suddenly the sun comes up
on the mountain road
-- Matsuo Basho
What do you notice when you go outdoors/outside? If not, please spare some time, take a walk, and let us know about your unique or different experience of the outer world.