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How to End Your Days with Peace
Take a walk under the stars
Step by step peace returns before we settle in for the night.
I’m not sure how it started. I think my husband and I have always walked together. We walked and hiked foothills, mountains, and valleys countless times when we were dating. We walked the streets and neighborhoods in the evenings when he would come to visit me my first year of graduate school, both to explore and to get out of the heat of my little upstairs studio apartment with no AC. We walked down to the schoolyard every evening with our Springer Spaniel, Lizzy, when we were first married.
We’ve walked together almost every evening since then — rainy nights, cold nights, foggy nights, and starry, moonlit nights; with babies in backpacks and strollers, dogs on leashes, and by ourselves. It seems like we’ve walked at least a million miles together arm in arm.
Our nightly walks mark the close of our days. They are a time to reconnect with each other. We talk about the day gone by and the one to come. We ask each other what’s on our minds. We walk peacefully together in the quiet.
There is something about being outside under the night sky that opens us up. It gives us a larger perspective on our days and makes any worries or concerns that we have seem smaller. We look up and observe the stars on clear nights. We watch the movement of the moon in its orbit night by night. We feel the wind and laugh in the rain.
Step by step peace returns before we settle in for the night.
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