Nov19

“at some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough.” – toni morrison.

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the visit every park challenge

*what began seven years ago

(link below)

* https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/?s=parks+walk

with a walk in the park

 grew into walking

all 152 ann arbor parks

over four months time

and

 recently began again

seven years later

when i paid a visit to talk to the parks team:

https://www.a2gov.org/departments/Parks-Recreation/GIVE365/Pages/Visit-Every-Park-Challenge.aspx

discovering there were now ten new parks

and set off to walk them 

while revisiting many of my old favorite parks

coming away from it

now 162 parks later

with the joy of experiencing firsthand

even more of the beauty that surrounds me 

thanks to the time and energy

that the parks department

and the many caretakers

put into the parks projects

knowing how much the community values them

we are so lucky to live amidst these parks.

—

“city parks serve, day in and day out,

as the primary green spaces for the majority of americans.” 

– bruce babbitt, former u.s. secretary of the interior

 

 

 

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  5. well done beth. you DO have a large multitude of wonderful parks, that‘s amazing. and the quote! you are truly blessed, being able to live in such a thriving, nature loving community and city!

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  6. Well done, Beth …
    “The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake up in the morning and have a choice between doing the laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk. You’d hate to die and realize you had spent your last day doing the laundry.” ~ Joyce Tenneson

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  8. They’ve been transforming the park where I walk and bike from imported trees to native plants. Intellectually I understand why, and much of the native flora is very pretty, but I do sometimes miss those trees. They obviously didn’t take down all the trees, the redesign mostly changed one side of the lake, but still.

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  28. I literally grew up at my park. Swam, danced, was a camp counselor, did everything there during grade school. Portage Park. Chicago’s neighborhoods are often known by the name of their park. Like living in the Portage Park area. Parks were and still are important in the city. Having said that, I think you parks are far different than ours. We had a field house, sand boxes, swings, metal slides, an Olympic size pool, after awhile and drinking fountains. Baseball areas too, but no real woods, although there were trees, no streams or anything. Very busy streets were on two sides of it and regular neighborhood streets on the other two sides. I loved that park. We all did. Congratulations on a job well done. I imagine you had a wonderful time, saw many lovely things and enjoyed yourself immensely. Love your photo. Congrats again.

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