Stephen Graham called it “The Gentle Art of Tramping.” “It is a gentle art; know how to tramp and you know how to live.”

I am intrigued by the idea of walking as art and the walker as an artist. When I view great works of art, be they paintings or symphonies or novels, I wonder what it is that touches my soul. What is it about the creator that makes him or her able to produce that kind of magic?

Graham says that walking as an artist will make us an artist in life as well, and in the end, we will experience the “artist’s joy in creation.”

Sounds like something worth discovering.

In the next nine blogs (10 counting this one) I’m going to examine Graham’s essay (written in 1923, it’s only five pages long) to find out what makes a walker an artist.

**On Wednesday, I’ll write about Freedom.