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On Gear
I placed the objects in the photo below in the smallest bag I had. I put on my lightest sneakers and started walking North from Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Palisades California to the Ray Miller Trailhead in Ventura County.
On Walking
Walking is a controlled fall,
each step is a leap of faith,
walking approaches magic.
The proprioceptors in our muscles,
the proprioception awareness of our brains is turned on when walking.
I had been reading some good books and was thinking of Darwin, Thoreau, E.O. Wilson, AI, memory, paleoanthropology, anthropology, fire, air, water, connection to water, communication prior to language, Hebrew being 6,000 years old, epigenetics, the human gene to explore, Starlink, unintended consequences, slaughter bots, understanding AI through unintended consequences, time, the unintended consequences of keeping time, dreaming, manifesting, connection and disconnection, shadow, shamans and shadow, Moses and shadow, Aristotle and shadow, Native American headdress and shadow. Botany in general. Memory, crispr, humans becoming gods. While I was walking alone I didn’t feel lonely with so many thoughts running through my head.
On The Built Environment
The outward part of the trip was a meditation on the built environment of Los Angeles a place bounded by mountains and ocean that is paved, stuccoed and sheetrocked and whose built environment is a crime scene. All members of the Coastal Commission should be fired and new members should be required to walk the Back Bone Trail to understand what is at stake before they begin their service as this land is spectacular.
On Memory
An observation. I had been on parts of this trail previously. Every time I came to a place where I had been before I knew I had been there. Driving in a car you experience road not place. Walking you experience place and remember it.