Episode 8

If you had to pick a location that had a “sense of place,” where would that be? Is it somewhere you’ve visited, somewhere you live or lived? What gave it that sense of place? As I write this, it’s Christmas Eve day in East Aurora, NY. Ironically, we thought we’d be having a green Christmas. It just didn’t seem right…16 miles from Buffalo (which is usually the punchline in snow jokes) and all our snow was gone with a recent heatwave in the high 30s and low 40s. But just as I started uploading Episode 8 of the Thoughts on Walks podcast…as Christmas music plays in the background and my wife is making cinnamon rolls for tomorrow, the skies unleashed with big, puffy snowflakes. It looks like we’ll have a white Christmas after all. Talk about a sense of place! I’m going to spend the day working on those Craftsman-style doors I mentioned, I have an important phone call at 2pm, and then maybe it’s another fire on the sleeping porch with a drink and a book. How about you? Here are links to a few of the things I spoke about as I walked around the village recording Episode 8: The Tweet I saw about the little library in the tree that spoke to me so: The article in The Buffalo News about my little village: East Aurora New York…my village If you use Instagram, connect with me there at https://www.instagram.com/thoughtsonwalks/ Merry Christmas!