The Mysterious Walking Stick
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
When he was a kid, it made him feel like Evel Knievel. But, now there are more questions than answers. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about an heirloom from his grandfather that's a forerunner to something you can use today to supersize your walking workout.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself. |
| 0:07.0 | And we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. |
| 0:12.0 | Out as the sun is beginning to rise, I call it early daylight. |
| 0:18.0 | The sky off to the east is brighter. |
| 0:22.1 | And I can start to see the first hints of sunrise. |
| 0:29.1 | Looks like it's going to be a beautiful sunrise, |
| 0:31.9 | maybe not the most dramatic. |
| 0:34.2 | The skies are clear, and I've always found that it's actually the skies where there are not full of clouds, but a number of clouds. |
| 0:42.3 | Sunlight is reflecting off of the clouds and creating all kinds of dramatic colors. |
| 0:49.3 | And I don't see too many clouds, so this is going to be a straightforward sunrise, I think. |
| 0:57.2 | I have in my office a walking stick that used to be my grandfathers. And I don't remember where |
| 1:04.4 | he got it, but I do remember going over to his house when I was probably 11, 12, 13 years old. |
| 1:14.2 | And this walking stick was in a large container that sat near the front door. |
| 1:19.6 | And in this container were other walking sticks, canes, there were umbrellas, maybe a half a dozen different things in this container. |
| 1:31.3 | But this particular walking stick always grabbed my attention. |
| 1:36.3 | And more often than not, I would pull it out of the container |
| 1:40.3 | and I would walk around his house with this walking stick. |
| 1:46.1 | And it is about three and a half feet, three feet in length. |
| 1:53.7 | And the walking stick, the stick part is wood, painted black. |
| 1:58.5 | It's got a hard tip at the bottom that would contact the ground. |
| 2:03.6 | And then at the top, there's a hand grasp made of brass. I'm assuming it's brass. |
| 2:10.6 | And it's very ornamental. It looks fancy. On the top of the hand grasp is an engraved name Joseph F. Morris, |
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