Day 080g: Keeping each other On Track … (July 03, 2019)
I don’t know who decided to embed these Camino markers into Pamplona’s streets, and yet I was very thankful for them, whoever they were …
“Walkers are in a not-quite indirect way ‘practitioners of the city,’ for each and every city – to the degree it has been properly planned & organized – is made to be walked. And in this way a city is its own language — a flowing repository of possibilities, and walking through it is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. And just as language places certain limits on what can be said, a city’s pathways and streets & architecture place certain limits on where one can walk, with the primary difference being the walker – unlike the speaker – is allowed to spontaneously invent new ways to go.” ~ inspired by Rebecca Solnit
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