cherylmurfin
Petal by Petal a City, a Zoo and This Young Man Open My Heart
Watching the world directly around me open up in this pre-post-pandemic moment is like watching one of those films of a flower blooming...
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cherylmurfin
Apr 2, 20215 min read
The Overstory. Or, Why I'm Suddenly Talking to Trees
If you’ve been following my posts, you might think I am a little obsessed with rain forests. I guess I am. It seems being cooped up this...
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cherylmurfin
Mar 14, 20213 min read
Traveling How We Can
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico With long-distance travel still way off the on jet-streaked horizon, I've been returning in my mind — and...
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cherylmurfin
Mar 6, 20216 min read
The Hills Are Alive: Discovering the Alps in My Backyard
If you are over 50 you likely remember the classic movie hit parade of the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s — those annual TV screenings of...
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cherylmurfin
Mar 1, 20214 min read
The Day Cyrano de Bergerac Left Me
Not a lot of walking this week. Instead, I've been sitting in the same chair for most of each day being trained as a facilitator in the...
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cherylmurfin
Feb 27, 20212 min read
My Mother in the Woods
My mother has said to me a couple of times "I wish I could go on one of your long walks." I feel a little guilty about this, because,...
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cherylmurfin
Feb 17, 20212 min read
Oh the Rush of the White Stuff in Seattle
there we were again shocked and awed caught off guard curiously unprepared given it happens almost every year tingling with excitement...
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cherylmurfin
Feb 14, 20215 min read
Rewriting Fear of the Dark
I’ve been thinking about my past polarity of day and night, possibly because in these times the two seem to blur together into one...
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cherylmurfin
Feb 8, 20212 min read
Posie: An Inner Dialogue
Inside No. Do you know what this is? This is my belly. It is warm under these covers. I am happy here. And, look out there. Do you see...
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cherylmurfin
Feb 6, 20216 min read
Less Than a Mile to Heaven
It is a .07 mile walk from my place to heaven. Or, at least as close as Posie and I have been to heaven so far. You see, my friend Susan...
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cherylmurfin
Feb 3, 20216 min read
Some Small Thing
When I moved from my hometown Seattle to Los Angeles in 2012, one of the things that most horrified me, was the painful disconnect...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 30, 20215 min read
Understanding "Bob"
I have ended relationships over steep inclines. I’m not kidding. Back in my 20s I dated a man I’ll call “Bob.” He was a biking enthusiast...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 27, 20214 min read
Squirrel! And Other Creativity Killers
This blog won’t always be focused on the physical act of walking. It will morph as I morph because my intention here is to create a place...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 24, 20215 min read
Touchpoints
At the entrance to one of my favorite trails — the Interlaken Park Loop — two white wooden chairs sit facing each other, a six-foot-long...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 19, 20215 min read
Rainforest Realizations
Hints on how to live are everywhere. This past weekend, for instance, I found strands of insight weaving themselves through the trees and...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 15, 20216 min read
Walk-talking About Writing
Walking About Writing One of the little things I most look forward to these days is walking around Green Lake with my friend Sharon,...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 11, 20217 min read
Posie and the Jammer
We walked by my favorite Grand Central Bakery here in the Eastlake neighborhood six, maybe seven times today. Round and round a...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 7, 20216 min read
The Beginning of the End
I’m not sure what I expected. But I guess I did expect something, I don’t know, More Dramatic. Golden trumpets maybe. The skies parting...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 5, 20215 min read
Unmasked
I spend most of my walking time looking down, either at my feet or a few steps in front of them. Rarely do I look up and out any further...
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cherylmurfin
Jan 3, 20216 min read
All About the Weather
FOR SOUNDTRACK TO THIS POST, CLICK: RAIN WIND Sometimes you really need to do that thing you balk at, that thing you convince yourself...
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