It is 1066 steps from the library to my house (and presumably the same number going the other way though it is a mysterious world). If the length of each step is three feet, though some may be less due to periodic icy conditions, that means 3198 feet, somewhat less than 2/3rds of a mile. It is a pleasant walk with occasional convivial encounter with a humanoid, feathered, and/or furry neighbor. I returned the Swedish author Henning Mankell's "The Troubled Man" which is the swan song of his aging detective, Kurt Wallander and bumped into and gave a lift home to Vaclav Havel's autobiography "Disturbing the Peace" and to Jim Harrison's "Sundog." I thoroughly enjoy walking. Solvitur ambulando! It is solved by walking around. Or as Jim Harrison writes in his Author's Note to "Sundog" -- "...I shouldn't have been caught standing in the first place. It is an unnatural act. Fluidity and grace are all."
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