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b'\\u201cI would like to step out of my heart/and go walking beneath the enormous sky\\u201d, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in 1918, probably consumed with a similar human anxiety to the one we each bear every weirdass day of our lives. This is the first episode of our new biweekly Patron\\u2019s-only podcast where you\\u2019ll come on a walk with me, either literally or figuratively, from wherever you happen to be. Walks facilitate, by nature of our very biology, more creative ways of thinking about the world; they are a liminal place where small things happen that feel big, things that can change you. Fair warning, this new show is very different from American Hysteria, and you\\u2019ll have to be willing to roll with me out of history and logic and into that dreaded contemplative, meditative territory of ethereal questions and embodied experience, and perhaps worst of all, the joy at the miracle of being alive. I hope you might be willing to share your own thoughts eventually too, so that we can turn this into a kind of ramblin\\u2019 collaboration. So, in this time when walks are one of the only things we know are safe to do, I hope you\\u2019ll come and walk with me.\\n\\nIf you like this episode, become a patron now for a new episode every two weeks as well as more bonus content!\\n\\nMusic by Miranda Zickler\\nHosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'