Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

Walking my local streets this lunchtime in relentless rain, thinking about eeverything we’ve learned this series. I’lll be back in late October with Series 51. I wonder what we’ll be discussing then.

My radical promot today, dear friends, is that most creative genius is not an act, but a habit. Walking my local streets, paying attention to what’s directly in front of me as we approach the end of the series.

Walking my local streets, thinking about how society doesn’t value creative gifts enough. What hope of structures for creative folk to develop their gifts? Plus a walking report from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime considering thoughts mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about how gifts exist within both the market exonomy and the gift economy.

Walking in Clapham this morning, wrapping up Week 1, Series 50 of Walk the Pod on the topic of ‘Gifts’. What have we learned so far? Check out https://www.walkthepod.com to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club or leave a voicenote.

Walking in the woods near home and thinking about how all stories can be framed in terms of a person developing a gift. With a walking report from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime thinking about gifts, art, and the artist. Do we have an obligation to develop and use our gifts? Does society have a responsibility to give artists the time to develop their talents?

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and considering whether there is something unique about gifts. Do they carry within them a responsibility to pass them on, could they, as some peoples believe, have a soul?

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and recalling a folk tale from my childhood reimagined as an allegory about gifts and what we need to do to realise them.