Once keeping good cadence is easy on pavement, learn to keep that cadence on the trail.
So follow along with me in this blog over the next four months as I manage my excitement (and fear), pound the pavement and hopefully learn something about myself as I prepare for this quintessential (and perhaps life-changing) New York City experience.
Keep making music, pounding the pavement, drawing the mountain, singing the song, learning the craft, rolling up your sleeves, and putting your head down.
This, it turns out, is an actor portraying Pinter, who recounts a spill he took when his cane slipped on a pavement, shortly before he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize.
But after seeing workmen paving our driveway, I decided to learn how to resurface pavement.
With a cane she learned to understand the pavement's music, but it was limiting.
A little after 9, as the Great American Novelist departed, the guests reluctantly followed, talking and clutching glasses, walking uncertainly down the marble steps to the pavement outside, where hopeful stragglers met them and learned they'd arrived too late.
Never having learned the simple New York tip — stay to your right on the pavement (or the left, as in their cars) — they charge down walkways bumping into one another constantly (and me, minding my own business, on the right).
It is from here, among the bars and pavements of Marseilles, that he narrates his part of the story - to where, we learn, he has been exiled from the Legion in disgrace.
You learn it and relearn it, so tell her not to break her teeth against the pavement while trying".
