It’s not your path if your feet never touch it.
From The Beginning Viewed from the End, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Switch spent the better part of the morning on the low wall describing the route he means to take along the gutter line to the oak, naming each downspout as though he had already been there. He has been describing it since the thaw. I used to think this was the useful part, the seeing ahead, and for years I called planning a kind of travel; I would map a flight over the field and then not fly it, and feel I had been somewhere. But the gutters are still as clean as they were in March. It's not your path if your feet never touch it. Around noon he went four feet down the wall, stopped, came back, and told me about the downspouts again.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
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