What's the or most beautiful thing you've seen on a walk today? National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week
💡 Check out this guide on choosing a niche to share your own "road-worn" stories with the world. Poetics for Tramps
Next time you see someone sitting on a curb with a notebook, don’t just see a "tramp." See a witness. They are documenting the parts of our world that the rest of us are too busy to notice. What's the or most beautiful thing you've seen
For the wanderer, poetry starts in the feet. There is a "meter" to a long walk down a highway or the rhythmic clacking of a train over jointed rails. This physical repetition clears the mind, leaving room for the kind of raw, unvarnished thoughts that rarely survive in a cubicle. The steady thump-swish of boots on asphalt. They are documenting the parts of our world
"My object in living is to unite / My avocation and my vocation / As my two eyes make one in sight." — Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time Why It Matters
How a landscape changes from industrial gray to forest green, like a shifting stanza. 2. Finding Beauty in the "Ugly"