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Small things need time.
I walk at a moderate pace
(no athletic power walk for me)
and yet I am still unable to take in
the small things I see.
The crack in the sidewalk catches my eye
but
whoosh!
I am beyond it before I can give it
the attention it deserves.
The same is true of the clump of
now-golden hosta leaves
which barely register in my brain
as a beautiful contrast to autumn's brown plants
when
Hoop-la!
they are behind me.
The only solution is to adopt
the stop-and-start wonder-walk of the two-year-old,
for whom the slightest anomaly
deserves a detour.
And if I see so little,
I at my moderate pace,
how much is missed by our hurrying society
of runners, joggers,
and men in cars
gobbling up the miles.
Speed kills.
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