I Walk in Your Name

For this walk, I went on a walk in the name of my boyfriend. In the name of getting to know eachother better. It was the first time I had been to his Hometown, and we walked together in the name of teaching me where he came from.

Over the course of this walk, we talked about what he did during his childhood. He showed me how to create a whistle out of the top of an acorn or a blade of grass. Being from Tucson, I had never really seen the top of an acorn, so not surprisingly, I also had never known one could make a whistle out of one.

We then walked a little further, and he picked a leaf off of a bush and told me to chew on it. At first, I was hesitant, but I was walking in the name of learning more about the man I love, so I chewed on it. It was called Sassafras. I thought it tasted like aromatherapy. I didn't really like it, but it was a flavor of his childhood.

We then walked for a while longer, and came across a group of children who had nets and were catching frogs. This is apparently something that most kids do in Michigan. I had never tried to catch a frog, but the kids let me try. We caught frogs with them for a little while. I was interested to find small groups of children along our walk all doing the same thing.

We talked about our childhoods. We talked about how the landscape had changed. We walked in the name of learning about one another. We walked in the name of our relationship.