Walk To Be Surprised

In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit says that walking “allows you to find what you don’t know you are looking for, and you don’t know a place until it surprises you.”

I would have said “you don’t know what you are looking for until it surprises you.”

Like the twin fawns, still in their spotted coats, I came across on my country walk, who peered curiously at me from their safe spot beneath their mother’s belly. Or the old friend I met on my town walk, who arrived at the exact same corner at the exact time of day as I.

Do you believe in divine coincidences? I do. I think God loves to surprise us, and he often does it on our walks.

Tomorrow I’m blogging about the joy of discovery.