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[score base: A red square with photos of children and adults doing karate; photo and score: Waverly Van Aalsburg (2021); score text: There is not better time. JOIN TODAY!!!/possibly at the expense of creating a pleasant walking/Create a walking instruction in response/’unique language/somewhere between gesture and thought’/In practice, the ultimate purpose of walking is stopping,/With ‘checklists’ such as these it is evident that there are many factors/’institute of silly walks’/in the modern built environement.]
Cathy; Waverly, Harlan, Brett, Kaitlyn, Jeff and Blake; Elspeth (Billie) Penfold; 16, October; The Villages, FL, USA; Lackawaxen, PA, USA; Whistable, UK.
We woke up to a video message from one of Waverly’s relatives, Cathy in the Villages, who had taken a silly walk around the pool! Our giggles indicated that her walk was a success, and we ate breakfast together as we prepared for our own. After breakfast, we headed outdoors and Waverly took the lead. We had decided to follow it as a map, and also tick off items from the checklist we had prepared in advance. Waverly led us in to the woods and we stopped to admire the changes in the landscape (the purpose of walking after all) as we moved sillily from place to place.
Following the score as planned came at the expense of a pleasant walking experience, at least for the youngest involved, so Waverly graciously shared leadership and rerouted us in response to Harlan’s desires. We walked up the hill, where things got very silly, as we explored a ‘unique language between gesture and thought’, and may have had a visit from the Grand ol’ Duke of York. Once we finally stopped, ‘our ultimate purpose’ had been fulfilled. Checklist checked! We hadn’t defined what makes a walk silly, but we had certainly investigated it.
![A sheet of paper with an unchecked checklist handwritten in large letters. The first box says "Silly" with arrows point to "Using the score as a map" above and "Investigate what makes a walk silly!" next to it; the next box says "Modern Build Enviro" with a carat pointing down to the words "How does the change in landscape due to seasons"; the final box reads "Stop throughout the walk to see", with an arrow pointing back to "Change in the landscape due to the seasons". There is a line running across the bottom of the page horizontally and underneath it is written "Asynchronous, but has to be Saturday"](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a4d06f18608d18dd0bcf293bed1a35c88eedf540a185a98b0645a1dc67cc32a/20211205_091600.jpg)
![A girl is seen walking into the woods from a green lawn. The trees are still green and there is a gravel bed with paving stones in the foreground.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1984cfd90ccc82945f670a0f727ebce1928a0824651373861049c2f1ca3e067a/20211205_090843.jpg)
![A long asphalt road lined by forest on either side. Brown trees run along the side of the street as well. In the distance a small girl in a hoodie lies on the left side of the road. A man is in the foreground bending his legs to walk in a silly fashion.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/478095a5fcfc8ec6c5ea83b2322f6cadfa9770cbe0ae0945cb522dba28e4fb99/20211016_102326.jpg)
![An asphalts road lined by forest with brown leaves scattered across it. In the distance an adult male in a red jacket can be seen talking to a small child.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9009c770b87bcef0b7c5d59a6d033e7688930a658cb6cde40d4f8bbd7e765fb/20211016_102600.jpg)
Arriving home, another walker’s version of the score awaited me in my e-mail. Billie had walked it in Whistable:
Dear Waverley,
I loved your score.
Berts ( my dog) and I started outside the house and decided on a
silly weaving walk criss crossing in and out of the beach huts.
You have no idea how happy this made Berts as he loves to run in and out criss-crossing and hiding as we walked.
![A line of beach huts on the ocean. The huts divide the water from a large green field.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01ec36583a70fef3f02fbebe32c89c1af1b75b537dcd167f262546fd785a116a/image3.jpeg)
![Close up of the back of the beach huts. A bit of grass is visible in the foreground and the ocean is visible in the background.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ce93d5c1f18790c8cd285f19aa593ab2fd874bf30945e6d308d70c1c35280bc/image4.jpeg)
You have no idea how happy this made Berts as he loves to run in and out criss-crossing and hiding as we walked.
We ended up at the steps up the slope ( I’ve sent a photo).
![4 beach huts, one of bright blue, another blue and white striped, sit on the water, with a field in the foreground.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3c7e8bd309eed93ccf1308d53111d05669163fbed9606e09d6fbdef59435bcb/image5.jpeg)
![Stairs lead down to the beach with gravel and grass on either side. The ocean can be seen in the distance, as well as a sliver of beach.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6181ebff34ea809044a463453a1c3da534bc506ac9a929be444e746c341e846a/image6.jpeg)
At the top is a beach shelter (all quite mad really as I’m not sure who uses these anymore) this was our X marks the spot. You get a beautiful light through the windows at sunset it lights up like a lantern.
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Berts and I walked around the shelter several times as a ritual marking of the spot. We had to stop as we noticed people were watching us, they probably thought we were being silly, which, of course, we were.
![A wooden beach shelter with a triangular roof on concrete surrounded by grass. There are benches visible part of the sky is starting to glow as the sun sets.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ecccec5560c16b58deafd9ad1a846b61e729d08bdd32f895cdf984bcf3d1b89/image7.jpeg)
![A wooden beach shelter on a concrete square surrounded by grass. The sun is setting in the distance turning the sky orange.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc2524a04f71a762e0b3b6ec5df9bb4de602ef83e0dde10ce2531c7d68e0b2b6/image8.jpeg)
Berts and I walked around the shelter several times as a ritual marking of the spot. We had to stop as we noticed people were watching us, they probably thought we were being silly, which, of course, we were.
Thank you for giving us such a fun, fab walk. I look forward to seeing yours .
All best wishes,
Billie
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