A morning walk

She says we do it for exercise and health. She's certainly right, but there's more. There's inner peace. There's beauty. There's solitude. There's starting the day without the banality, at best, or the political bickering, at worst, served up by the morning TV news shows. There's escape into a world without hunger, disease, war, or any of the problems humanity inflicts upon itself. All that waits until later.