Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

It’s the most beautiful day in the world on the bike track here in SW19. A walking report from Laura in Pitstone on the Beds/Bucks border and an invitation to two gigs and the walk the pod walking club --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

Polly from the mean city streets has been on with some flowers she’s grateful to have spotted on her daily school runs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

Laura from Norfolk has requested more birdsong! So this episode includes 30s of blue recording from my Dad’s microphone in rural Norfolk. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

Contemplating another deep time walk on the cycle path this afternoon. What do you think? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

Someone has chalked a Ukraine flag on the wall of the railway bridge today and I’m reminded of “To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.” - John Burroughs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

Feeling much better today and back on the cycle path in SW19. I bring some thoughts about failure from Marvin Minsky, Heather Havrilesky and Adam Savage (I remembered his second name!) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

A rare non walking episode today as I sit in my living room gazing out of the window at the blue sky in SW19. Plus voice notes from Nige and the Mothership. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

Child 1, 3 and I have all come down with the C word over the last 48 hours. I particularly appreciate your company today as I’m feeling under the weather. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

A fresh bunch of beautiful voicenotes from various Poddies today, including Hannah, my Dad, the Mothership and Supreme Cross Border Selector Nige. It’s the most beautiful day in the world! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

Walking behind the hospital in Tooting with some thoughts on the best way to incorporate a gratitude practice into the day. There’s also a walking report from Nige in northern Spain, and a nature update - what’s new in nature on the cycle path for March? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message

I’m walking around my living room, indoors today as storm Eunice batters the cycle path. Walk the Pod is your daily walking podcast In this episode of daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. This is the tenth...

A big storm is forecast in the UK tomorrow and so I’m enjoying some calmer weather today. Walk the Pod is your daily walking podcast In this episode of daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. This is the ninth...

Two cats up a tree on the cycle path this afternoon. Stoics on the Cycle Path Seneca today from a letter entitled 'The Healing Power of the Mind': “To one who roams through the universe, the truth can never fail to surprise. It will be the untruths that will disgust him. And on the other hand, if death comes near, even though it be untimely in its arrival, though it cut one off in one's prime, a m...

Celebrating half term on the bike track with the kids this afternoon. In this episode In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. This is the seventh episode of Series 24 of the podcast. Jo...

Stoics on the psychopath is how my transcription software translates ‘Stoics on the Cycle Path’ much to my amusement. Must not call it that forevermore. Stoics on the Cycle Path Marcus Aurelius provides today’s wisdom: “How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this is the dead body of a bird or pig; and agai...

Adam Philips provides our Stoics on the Cycle Path reading today: “Every adult remembers, among many other things, the great ennui of childhood, and every child’s life is punctuated by spells of boredom … Boredom is actually a precarious process in which the child is, as it were, both waiting for something and looking for something, in which hope is being secretly negotiated, and in this sense bor...

A reading of the Walk the Pod manifesto on the cycle path today, plus stoic philosophy from Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. This is the fourth epi...

Commander Peter Sansun got in touch with his favourite piece of Stoic philosophy, which comes from Joni Mitchell: ‘Nothing lasts for long.’ In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. This...

Stoics on the Cycle Path comes from Marcus Aurelius today, Meditations book 6 number 27. “How cruel it is not to allow a man to strive after the things which appear to them to be suitable to their nature and profitable! And yet in a manner thou dost not allow them to do this, when thou art vexed because they do wrong. For they are certainly moved towards things because they suppose them to be suit...

Hello and welcome to Series 24! Today I’m delighted to be back on the bike track with a brand new feature: 'Stoics on the Cycle Path', brought to you today by Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, on friendship. “I would encourage you to discuss everything with a friend, but first of all, discuss the person themselves. When friendship has just begun, you must trust before friendship is formed, you mu...

…lunchtime doubly so. In this episode, I Rachsplain how to take a lunchbreak in 2022. In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. I've been making daily episodes of Walk the Pod since Novem...

Chatting about cultivating boredom and whether we think more creatively when we’re walking because our brains are not inhibiting movement?! In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. I've...

Featuring a walking report from Kiwi Rob, this is the first Friyay episode of the new series. In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in the world. I've been making daily episodes of Walk the Pod sin...

Freezing cold on the footpath today. I’m talking about Zen Navigation. How do you navigate the world? Are you travelling in the direction best for you, or following other people? In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and th...

In an exceptionally good mood as I walk the SW19 footpath this afternoon. The sun is shining, the sky is skudded(?) with clouds, all is well with the world. In this episode of your daily walking show, Walk the Pod, I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. Take 10 minutes out of your day to walk in nature, pay attention to what’s directly in front of you and think about how to be in...