If you’re following this blog a little more seriously than I am, if you’re holding your breath anticipating the next video, you might be dead of asphyxiation by now, or at the very least you will have noticed the three week silence. Rest assured, I’ve been walking, and recording, in exciting places.

 

“Et pourtant la nature est éternellement belle et généreuse. Elle verse la poésie à tous les êtres, …elle possède le secret du bonheur, et nul n’a su le lui ravir. Le plus heureux des hommes serait celui qui, possédant la science de son labeur, et travaillant de ses mains, puisant le bien-être et la liberté dans l’exercise de sa force intelligente, aurait le temps de vivre par le coeur et par le cerveau, de comprendre son oeuvre et d’aider celle de Dieu.”

Yet nature is eternally beautiful and generous. She pours poetry on all beings,…she possesses the secret for happiness, and no one has succeeded in stealing it from her. The happiest of men is he who, in full mastery of his craft, working with his hands, drawing well-being and freedom from the use of his intelligent power, should have time to live by the heart and the brain, to comprehend his work and assist in God’s.

Extrait de “La Mare au Diable”, George Sand, and my fairly literal translation.

Walking Project 102_twas the season – Altadena from chris worland on Vimeo.