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Walk Around
by Hudson Gardner
Distilled moments of presence in nature www.walkaround.run
Episodes
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45 - Love everyone, and tell the truth
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44 - All The Energy in the World for Nothing At All
I am sitting on the floor, at a pine coffee table I bought from IKEA a few months back. Simmering on the stove is a blend of herbs I formulated for the challenges of my current stage of life. In the oven is a piece of salmon caught in a distant ocean. I am typing on a laptop that is essentially a...
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43 - Resistance Takes Effort
Without honesty, life becomes a pantomime. And yet it’s hard to know what’s true. I’ve found that truth unfolds in concentric rings; like ripples in a still pool of water, or the growth of a tree. And each ring references, yet also takes space from, the previous. And so only in cycles of time…
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42 - Delivered Quietly
Vic Playlist Apple Music • Spotify TRANSCRIPT A long time ago, I used to have some friends who liked to go around the country by riding freight trains They'd hitch out of Omaha or Lincoln or usually Kansas City and end up in Pennsylvania or Montana, California, Arizona I never caught a ride with...
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41 - It Takes A Long Time
At the checkout counter, the southeast Asian guy whose country affiliation I can’t quite figure out smiles at me and asks how my day is going. We smile back and forth, subtly catching each others eye, like we are in on the same joke that neither of us know. His haircut is high and tight, he’s got…
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40 - Faith, Beauty, and Bonds
Lake You are a young girl playing on a log with your brother and dog The water in the lake clear and cold and deep, the rocks warm on the bank, little cottonwoods grow on the edge, in the distance: Mountains near enough to cast their shape on the waters surface. The water blue and green some…
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39 - Lake Shore Document
Transcript Hello... I am on the hillside listening to two coveys of quail call back and forth They've been slowly getting closer over the last 15 minutes, and I think they're going to link up I saw one group They had a bunch of fluffy little hatchlings running around I don't know how big the…
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38 - Owhyee Country
There’s finality to certain things in life. One kind has to do with naming something. Another has to do with speaking its name. Listen for some thoughts on quietude in vast spaces.https://walkaround.run/p/owhyee-country Public lands are in the process of being sold. Call your reps!(202)...
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37 - Globemallow
Distilled moments of presence in nature More at: https://walkaround.run This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.walkaround.run
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36 - Canyon Thinking
Transcript Hey there So I am walking the backside of this little meadow, forested area where my mom lives It's on the edges of old farmland and I'm about to hop over a split rail fence, which is a little awkward, it's a little tall There's some, a lot of native plants around here, and also some...
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35 - Atlant(is)
DONATIONS I am currently at a residency, in the midst of a self-funded project. Donations on Buy Me A Coffee, PayPal, or Venmo are all seriously appreciated right now—Thank you! In this episode I share a poem I wrote in Idaho last summer, reflections on the residency I'm attending, and some…
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34 - Unravel & Reweave
If you think about it, what draws people toward something these days is often about reclaiming our humanity. What's healthful, and thus has gravity, are positive expressions about who we are, resiliency, and beauty, especially amidst hardship and grief. Dance, song, creating—expressions of our...
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33 - Mā
There's a moment in most of Miyazakis films, when the dialogue and often the music cuts, and a single character (usually the protagonist) is left alone in the raw and open experience of something. It takes mastery to convey a moment such as this, a moment of space and presence. This is the kind…
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32 - On Violence And Lust - A Short Note On Election Day
Transcript This morning I downloaded and logged into Instagram Something I haven't done in a month or two I mostly got off of the platform because I don't really think it's doing good things for humanity The problem is so many people use it Their communication and time is used up on it And many...
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31 - Nehalem
Questioning my assumptions, and an encounter with Amanita, the Fly Agaric mushroom. Be sure to check out the images of the Nehalem and Wilson as well as the dunes at Bayocean Spit on the website This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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30 - Imagine
Hello, Welcome to Walk Around. This is Hudson Gardner. It's been a little while. I've been out and about, traveling, hiking, running, doing things that I love, spending time with wonderful people, seeing beautiful things, having really beautiful conversations—learning about myself, learning about...
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29 - Heart Lessons from Poison Hemlock
Transcript (includes errors) Hello. Welcome to Walk Around. This is Hudson Gardner. I am sitting at the edge of a field where the trees come out a little bit into the grass. And there's a little secret spot surrounded by hawthorn trees, there's an aspen that has a lot of young aspen around it.…
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Aquamarine
This poem came to me when I was sitting on the rocks near a wharf off water street in Port Townsend. I had climbed down off the sidewalk and found a spot where kids hang out and tag. It’s a quiet place but some other person came with a notebook and started sketching. She kept looking toward at…
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28 - Overabundance
As spring has gotten into gear around here, I've been noticing the general abundance of plant life, and weather, and birds, and social engagements—and it's got me reflecting on different kinds of abundance, overabundance, scarcity, relationships, community... From that corner of the human...
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27 - Thank You For Listening
This podcast covers the issue of addiction. If you are in need of help, call the national hotline, 988. Transcript (may contain errors) There's a bell that I've taken around with me wherever I've lived I can't remember where I got it, maybe in Portland at the Japanese Garden And I've often hung…
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26 - The Most Important Thing About Life Is That It Happens
A week ago I sent my friend Jen a poem I wrote called Selfheal. They told me that they too have a meaningful connection with the plant, and then sent the above image back. When I saw it, for some reason these words came: "Believe in your next steppingstone." Jim Harrison interview:...
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25 - By Firelight
Recorded near Port Townsend, Washington. A short rumination on movement, landscapes, and people—how they all connect. I read a poem called By Firelight, and discuss a run I took on Christmas Eve. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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24 - Harvest
Transcript (Includes typos and run on sentences) Welcome to Walk Around. This is Hudson Gardner. I've always been attracted to edges. And I feel like I've written about it. About edges, I guess, many times, trying to understand Why I'm always kind of going along to edges and right now I'm sitting...
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23 - Don't Worry
This is Hudson Gardner. Welcome to Walk Around. Right now I am sitting in the shade. It's really hot today. So I’m sitting next to a guest house I'm living in, looking out across an unmowed, untended field. It's kind of like a little pasture. This is actually a place I've been coming since I was...
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22 - Globemallow
Globemallow Year after year after year Smooth rocks smoothened By water and even sand in wind and even wind Juniper scrub grew to a tree split and died Remains as snag mostly still alive Rodent holes take refuge in sandy soil Beneath the globe mallow crop waiting for the seven year piñon to drop...
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21 - A Pond In Beaverton
In many ways my experience is as vast or constrained as I allow it to be. I mused on this idea in this week’s show. My conclusion? Walk around, and look around. And maybe be slower to be define how something is, or isn’t. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...
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20 - Running Beyond Reason With Blaine Benitez
It's rare to find a flow in life where all needs align. Usually, some needs have to be traded for others. And sometimes it's hard for me to even know what it is I really need. Talking with my friend Blaine Benitez on this episode, I think he's someone who is working to understand the ebb and flow...
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19 - Strength & Fear
Transcript This morning I went for a run in the woods, on these really beautiful trails that are used by snowmobiles. The organization that maintains the trails and works with landowners to allow access is called VAST - The Vermont Association of Snow Travelers. I'm not really sure if you're...
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18 - Music To Share
A short episode about a piece of music by Dario Lessing that I have been enjoying Elfe by Dario Lessinghttps://open.spotify.com/track/5DVGcnv54vwvqFxYg5rH7n This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.walkaround.run
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17 - The Bridge
Some writing about a bridge I used to run across all the time, and my thoughts on a manuscript I’ve been working on. Recorded by a small pond on the edge of a field outside Forest Grove, Oregon. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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16 - The Heart
Transcript (sorry about typos) I've been trying to learn a short song on the piano recently. Because right now, I'm house sitting at the place across the road from the yurt that I live in. And there's a piano in here, an upright. It's not very clean, it's actually kind of out of tune. And that is...
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15 - That Makes Sense To Me
I recently heard about a story telling event nearby. The theme was Rural Life in Vermont. It made me pause, consider: if I had an audience in front of me, what kind of story would I tell? Awhile back I set out toward what interested me. You could say that by today's standards, I set out to be a...
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14 - To Be Here
Welcome to Walk Around—a new direction for this podcast. Last summer, 2021, I had an idea while walking in the high country—to make a podcast about walking. I've walked a long way, and to be honest, my creative path as an artist started right there, with walking. Walking itself is so simple, yet…
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12 - Winnowing
Winnowing It happened when the grass was flowering: pale puffs of dust, appearing with a breeze, or even from a tiny beetle landing on a stem. Just enough to send life outward. Snipe stood on a log that morning, just watching. I thought about the sound he makes as he flies all night and he…
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11 - The Present
I think it’s hard to be present, because I have been taught all my life that the point of life, the purpose of it, is to progress. There’s always some achievement or some better future off in the distance. Yet what I’ve learned is that the present is where life occurs. It doesn’t happen in the...
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10 - Wellbeing
Wellbeing is a net. And we are a strand in the net. The strands around us are made of people, places, what we consume, produce, see, feel, experience. I think of this in the fading evening. The leaves and hills have changed slowly this season. The tops of mountains have snow. Distant hills...
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9 - Start Where You Are
Thoughts about being present and ignoring obstacles—to focus instead on what you can do. Credits to the young hawthorne tree that has taken root on a hillside where I boil tea. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes…
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8 - Pain as a Practice
There is a little piano against one wall of this house I live in. I play it from time to time. When I first began, I noticed all the melodies I played were sad. I knew I had some sadness in me. Actually, I knew I had a lot. But, I didn’t really know what to do with it. So I played the piano most...
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7 - Backtracking
A story about following a coyote’s tracks in fresh snow. And, in turn, thinking about my own life. Full text below. Piano and story by me, Hudson Gardner. Tracks by coyote and deer. Snow by earth. … At the base of the hill, past the muddy shopyard and cattle fences, across the bridge that planks...
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6 - Calligraphy of a Stream
In this episode, I share a poem I wrote, and a little about my writing difficulties and successes over the last year or two. I really like this poem, and think it is one of my best. So I hope you find something in it too. Music Credits: Liberty Bell by Darkside. Calligraphy of a Stream I A gray...
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5 - Three Years of Growth
Credits: Piano by Hudson Gardner, Fire cracklings by fire, Wind by Earth Untitled Trackless trackless mountain cloudwhat do I ask to be?To be you, to be you. Coming—going into nothingwhat do I ask to see?To see you, to see you. Trackless trackless mountain pathwhere do I ask to go?To find you, to...
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4 - Coming Into Contact With Ourselves - Beau Vandendolder On Wilderness
Thanks for tuning in to this edition of Grass Journal, titled: Coming Into Contact With Ourselves. In this episode I discuss wilderness with Beau Vandendolder. He is a doctor of Classical Chinese Medicine, licensed acupuncturist, and Alexander Technique practitioner. He is also a dear friend,...
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3 - The Wilderness Within
Beautiful intro music by Anna Pallotta, cover of Regina Spektor Dear anyone, I hope the world isn't hurting you too much these days. What have you been up to? Today the sun came in through the clouds and the south facing windows. It made me remember how important it is to notice things like that....
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2 - Spider Ballooning - And why is the rent so expensive?
Dear subscribers, You can find my podcast on all major platforms now. Also, every episode will also be sent out on this newsletter. Here are some links: Spotify • iTunes • ListenNotes • Google • TuneIn Last week, I sat down at my birch table and recorded this episode more or less on accident in…
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1 - Taos, Being Born
Sangre De Cristo Mountains above Taos This newsletter is now a podcast too. I will send an email when the podcast is available on all podcast platforms. I also have a donate button on the bottom of this post. I have often felt confused in my life about how I fit into the world as an artist. Or in...
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Distilled moments of presence in nature www.walkaround.run
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