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Caroline Mellor's avatar

This was such a lovely early morning read, with gorgeous photos to match. I do almost all of my thinking on walks, so am glad to find your substack.

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Sam Pyrah's avatar

Thanks Caroline! Kudos to you for early morning starts...

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Lynne Wyness's avatar

A great post Sam. The coming to know a place intimately takes time doesn't it, we've lived in this place for ten years come January and I'm still discovering new paths and ways. Place-making is such an important human act and I am a huge fan of walking as a means to come to know our place.

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Sam Pyrah's avatar

Thank you Lynne. Yes, it takes time to reap the rewards of exploring with patience and curiosity and maybe a little reverence?! Whereabouts are you?

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Lynne Wyness's avatar

On the edge of Dartmoor, West Devon ☺️

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Sam Pyrah's avatar

I love Dartmoor. I did the Two Moors Way a couple of years ago. I have an essay about my walk coming out in Hinterland magazine in January...

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Lynne Wyness's avatar

Oh how wonderful! I’ve not heard of Hinterland, I’ll check it out x

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Felicity Martin's avatar

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. It held many resonances for me and reminds me there are still 'paths' I haven't found.

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Sam Pyrah's avatar

Thanks Felicity. I hope you feel inspired to go and find those unwalked paths!

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Paul Stanley's avatar

Lovely, keep going.

Re constructive feedback, I was on an Arvon workshop recently & one of the tutors gave us 11 editing tips, one (which I already tended to do) was: start with the strongest paragraph and build-if necessary reverse engineer-from there.

For me your strongest paragraph is the one which kicks off: ‘In Ground Work, edited by Tim Dee, …’

(Hope this helps rather than annoys -just my, & a highly respected other’s, 2p!)

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