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Walk #16

August 24, 2015October 24, 2016 By fmw

Reflections on Walk #16, Part I, Saturday, Sept 20, 7:30 am. The streets were quiet and clean this early, and the Saroyan Theater majestic with a sign celebrating 75 years of the Town Hall Lecture series. While waiting there about 3 minutes, three people walked past us, all looking dishoveled and walking in the direction of Poverello and Rescue Mission — a woman wearing a scarf headwrap pulling a rolling suitcase, a young man with a hikers backpack, and an older man in baggy dirty clothing. We walked west on Kern through downtown and around Chukchansi stadium. We saw demolition for the high speed rail station at the railroad tracks and Central Fish Company. I guess any $2 billion dollar project has to start somewhere, and we stood on the dirt where it starts. (I’ll show these pictures to our kids someday.) Then walked through older streets with small shops, some open, some closed, some boarded up. Signs of ethnic segments, Japantown, Chinatown, Mexico town.In front of the large beautiful Fresno Budhist Temple, men were standing on the corner and told me they were waiting for field work. Farmers come pick them up. Across 99 and the walk into west Fresno is fascinating. Tree lined streets with older homes and so much variety on each front porch. Many people were out and spoke to us. In brief greetings with people at two houses, they told us the house belonged to their mother who had lived there many years. Now the adult children were living their too, or visiting to help out. At one house, three adult sons had come over to build a new fence. Lots of neighborhood churches. A japanese catholic church, a convent, a few gospel churches, two AME churches. AME = African Methodist Episcopal. The very friendly Pastor Johnson, who apologized for wearing a t-shirt, invited us in to see the inside of the Free AME church. He let us in through the gates, and crossing the courtyard, we entered a beautiful little sanctuary with cushioned seats and a stage and altar. He was proud to tell us about their Sunday services, and the van that was donated. He invited us to come on Sunday morning at 10:30. End of Part I.

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Fresno Mindfulness Walks will lead a Saturday morning walk on January 29, 2022, beginning at 10 am. at 271 N. Glenn Ave., Fresno, CA 93701 (the home of Craig Scharton).  
 
The walk will be about 3 miles, at a stroll to medium pace, occasionally on uneven ground, and take about an hour and a half. By walking mindfully and without talking, we will experience the Lowell neighborhood in new ways. At the conclusion of the walk, we’ll gather back at Craig’s yard and spend a few minutes talking about what we discovered about ourselves and the neighborhood. 
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Fresno Mindfulness Walks are weekly opportunities for people to walk together for a 4 mile route through a different Fresno neighborhood each week. Walkers practice active mindfulness by attending to the sights, sounds, smells, feelings.  Walkers do not talk to each other on walks, but we do greet people we meet along the way.  The walk location and exact start time are posted just a few days in advance. All walks are free, require no RSVP, and anyone is welcome to join one walk or many. To learn about upcoming walks, you can sign up for a weekly email in the yellow bar at the top of this website and/or LIKE and follow the FMW Facebook page.

 

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Weekly walks are about 4 miles and take about an hour and a half. Walks are at a medium pace, often on uneven ground, and sometimes take longer than expected because walkers see themselves as curious travelers lingering to observe or going around a different way.

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