Why I Walk

Lois Requist
4 min readJul 30, 2022
Statue of walker on The Camino in Spain

…it’s an old habit

“It is solved by walking,” said St. Augustine, a Black North African saint, philosopher, and doctor born in 354. I guess that means I can’t ask him what “it” was. What did walking solve? I’m not sure, but as a dedicated walker myself, I have some idea.

I have that saying on a small plaque given to me by a friend. I smile every time I look at it. I’m not sure that walking solves anything…

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Lois Requist

Writing has been my passion for most of my life. Poetry, newspaper articles, and columns, two novels, and a nonfiction book published as well as short stories.