You walk differently when you walk in the world than when you walk past it.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Rain all morning, then that clean gray light, and the man who takes the long way through the park came through twice. The first time he had the phone up at his face and went past the puddles without seeing them, heels hitting the wet path hard and even, a metronome. The second time, maybe an hour later, no phone, and he stopped at the fence to look at nothing in particular, a sumac, and his feet made no particular sound at all. For years I took walking to be one activity done at different speeds. You walk differently when you walk in the world than when you walk past it, and the difference is in the ankles before it is anywhere else. Switch says he can hear which men are going to drop food, and I have started to believe him.
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
More like it
- There is no suffering the mind can imagine that the body cannot produce.
- No one ever looked at an animal in the wild and thought, "What poor posture!"
- The brain is a bundle of nerves.
- Count double the thoughts that precede your actions, half the ones that follow.
- When people say they want to feel better, they usually mean they want to feel less.
- What is spoken barely hints at what is shuttered in.