{"id":1895,"date":"2017-03-25T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2017-03-26T10:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T17:17:57","slug":"time-away-at-home-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"Time away at home, addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a perfect time-away day at home.<\/p>\n

After spending the first hour of the day\u00a0letting friends know about new pieces added to my blog (a task that gives me a satisfying sense of completion), I put\u00a0some notes,\u00a0my laptop, and an umbrella in a small pack and, with my pack on my back, headed out for a long walk. Despite a weather forecast of clouds and rain with a possible thunderstorm and hail, I planned to be out much of the day on a course I would\u00a0determine as I went.<\/p>\n

I walked a few blocks before stopping for breakfast at a neighborhood coffeeshop, where I also read through past notes for a complicated piece I’m trying to write. Part-way through the longer next leg of my walk, the sun began to prove\u00a0the forecast wrong.\u00a0What a gift! After a couple of miles of\u00a0steep, winding streets and views of the Cascades,\u00a0\u00a0I stopped \u00a0for coffee at a tiny coffeeshop where I\u00a0struggled to find a path through the ideas in the writing.\u00a0I didn’t actually pull out my computer, but I found at least a preliminary\u00a0place to begin and started\u00a0out again. The sun had taken over completely as I headed down the hill attracted by a set of stairs I hadn’t walked before and then headed straight east toward the Aboretum.<\/p>\n

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A map of my walk made after the fact<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just before reaching the park, I stopped at a cafe\/coffeeshop for lunch. I fiddled with my notes as I ate, but forced myself to actually begin before I left. By the time I walked out, clouds covered the sky and the rain had begun. Umbrella up, I headed into the Arboretum and followed\u00a0a trail along\u00a0the west edge that I hadn’t walked before, with\u00a0pines at the\u00a0start and hollies toward the end. The treat at the end of the trail was a bakery\/cafe just outside the park entrance. Over another cup of coffee and a treat, I made pretty good progress in my writing, at least getting a few thoughts into a document on my computer. Sheets of rain came\u00a0down while I worked.<\/p>\n

A bit later, bright sun pulled me outside again, this time to walk an almost straight line home. The straight line I’d walked before reaching the park was level, this one definitely was not. My quick estimate of the elevation gain on one\u00a0specific block \u2013 a short one, at that \u2013 was about 65 feet, though it felt like a 45 degree angle. After I got home, the energy of the walk continued and I worked for another hour or so.<\/p>\n

The piece I’m writing is far from done, but\u00a0the day convinced me that interesting places to walk\u00a0and let my mind wander are another requirement of a satisfying\u00a0time away.<\/p>\n

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