A Road Less Travelled

Several weeks ago Raquel and I started walking together in the morning. We started walking because we both wanted the exercise, but as we walked I started looking at it as an opportunity to connect with our neighborhood. Over the several weeks we’ve been walking I have felt more of a connection with our neighborhood than before because I’ve walked around it and been to most of it. Today marks the third week in a row we have walked every day. I see this as something of an accomplishment because there have been many days in the last three weeks I thought we were going to have to cancel our walk. But, through no fault of our own, we have now walked every day for three weeks. And today we got an indication that we are connecting with the neighborhood if only a little bit.

We were about to cross the street when a women in a car pulled up next to us and beckoned us over to her. She rolled down the window and told us that she sees us walking around every day and she just wanted to tell us that she likes our clothes. I felt rather surprised by this, but I felt encouraged by it on a couple different levels. The top level is simply that someone has noticed us. Someone has actually noticed us everyday and had something complementary to say. That made me feel glad.