Paths

A few little bits that came in from various places... And things to look forward to as well.

Here's a quote from Robert MacFarlane on paths.

Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It’s hard to create a footpath on your own… Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people. Paths are consensual, too, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over (though they may persist in the memorious substance of land law). Like sea channels that require regular dredging to stay open, paths need walking.

Here's a piece in the Marginalian on Thomas Bernhard.

And here's Sophie Blackall on "things to look forward to"