I'm not walking at the moment. I'm listening to this bird. And of course as soon as I say that,

the bird quiets up and flies away out of the tree. Okay, now I can start walking. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to

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You ever take a moment while you're walking and just consider the sounds around you?

I know one of the things that I fall into more often than not

is not so much blocking the sound out,

but it's just what I'm used to so I don't pay attention to it.

Then every now and then, and it happened just a moment ago,

it's like, oh, there's a lot going on.

So I've got a bird, which is on the other side of that parking lot,

a car that just turned from an intersection that I'm approaching.

I hear someone trimming grass and I can actually see that person up ahead.

There's someone cutting grass. He's about a block away.

I'm hearing some bugs off to my left.

And then another pickup truck which is approaching the intersection that I'm walking across right now.

All right, let him turn.

And then I'm going to cross the street.

Yeah, a lot going on.

And sometimes I pay no attention to it.

And then every now and then, I'm like yeah yeah there's a lot a lot happening shifting gears

I want to share with you a comment from Mike this was to one of the walkingness fitness

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