This research probes the relevance of literature on walking and meaningfulness placed onwalking by the walker, from viewpoints of history, literature, language, and the taken-for-grantedlife-world as inscribed in Théorie de la Demarche (Balzac, 1981), a 19th Century essay onwalking and expressed in the first hand accounts of 21st Century New York City walkers from alived experience perspective. This research sought to gain understanding of the perceptions ofwalkers who choose walking for its own sake even while in the contested pedestrian space of adensely populated, gridlocked, metropolitan area. Literary influences affected the wayparticipants viewed the world while walking. Moments of sensory essences noticed by theparticipants while walking took the forms of embodied rhythm, stimulated senses, and mindfulpace. These were conduits for gathering tangible connections to the past, to people, to place, andto time. Meaningfulness came from appropriating their time, memories, and independence in themidst of pressure to do otherwise. These meanings reinforced pride in their beliefs that walkingset them apart from the stresses of the high volume intrusiveness of city living. Walking asvoiced by the participants here, shows the lived experiential awareness as: reflexive, aestheticarticulation; transient, sensorial presence; and self-referential, epiphanic meaning. This researchshows significance to practice in affecting remembering in such a way as to improveappreciation of mutually shared meanings and communication between practitioners and theirconstituents.
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