Walking

I was realising today that if I attached rubber bands to a pin on a map around each of the places that are most important to me, and the other ends to our house, and gave each rubber band a spring constant proportional to its importance, and set our house free, it would end up pretty much exactly where it is. Which was maybe a dorky way to say that I think we live in precisely the perfect position for sustaining life, by foot.

Examples:

• school, 2 blocks
• Fuel, 3 blocks
• Vios, 1 block
• Volunteer Park, 3 blocks
• Volunteer Park Cafe, 3 blocks
• Victrola, 7 blocks
• Monsoon, 3 blocks
• Asian Art Museum, 4 blocks
• video store, 7 blocks
• Harvard Exit theatre, 9 blocks
• Vivace, 9 blocks
• Trader Joe's, 10 blocks
• UW, 35 minutes

Hm.. 4 cafes in that list.. and two of them, world class.

What brought this thought on: Jessy is in town so did some babysitting for me tonight. I left my office at 6.05, caught the bus up the hill, hopped off on 23rd at 6.20, walked over the hill to Harvard Exit and was at Broadway in time to enjoy a coffee at Vivace before the 6.45 movie (The Reader--one of the million books I read while pregnant or nursing). Then walked home. Faster than parking!