I'm so happy your are able to get back on the path again! When you said "...I can walk the same path daily, but reframe my mind setting, intentionally or spontaneously, so that it is an ever new experience...", I thought about my meanderings during 2020 and early 2021. I was feeling some stress - isolated from most friends and family (especially my "littles"), a sick (adult) kid, many hours on Connect mentoring in the Covid group... We were also working with my work-at-home daughter on keeping up her little guy's spirits while isolated from his daycare and preschool.

One of the strategies the preschool teacher found was "my 5 senses" - each day, my grandson and daughter would concentrate on one sense in their daily activities and talk about them. My role was to do afternoon walks with him, no matter the weather, and use the same sense to observe the world around us. Eventually, I incorporated this in to my own much longer ramblings.

That segued into topical rambles - observing squirrels one day, spider webs the next, maybe changes neighbors were making to their yards, etc. Now, when I walk with friends in Texas, I try to get them to join me in observation - it gives us whole new questions to explore and great conversational topics for our coffee, patio and happy hour gatherings.