Walking Out The Worry

These are the strolls I dreamed of not so very long ago – when life was a dull shade of suburbia and the best a local walk from my doorstep could offer, was a circular walk to Sainsbury’s via the park.

Now I open my door and skip into a wealth of choices for a walk. For months the beauty of the shoreline has kept me from looking behind me, away from the pastel blues and pinks or the surreal shimmer leading to the long low horizon hinting of worlds beyond. But now I realise there is room for more than one love in my life and have begun to chart the arrival of spring through the country lanes, hills and woods which lace the landscape.

I leave my worries behind the closed door, walk them out through the long narrow lanes, and allow my world to stabilize again through the hope budding in the hedgerows.