Lauds/Vespers

image from a dusk walk

"My everyday experience of walking confirms the poet Donald Hall's theory that poetic meter originates in the bodily rhythm of arms and legs in motion. Walking certainly looses up more than my leg muscles. The simple, repetitive movements also free up my mind..."

from The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "Women's Work"
by Kathleen Norris