It’s approaching 6 p.m. without an entry specifically about the walk having been written, so here is another excerpt from Melanie Challenger’s article, “Fear Itself,” in the latest issue of Orion:

“Most animals tend to fear what they’re justified in fearing. But if you can think about fear, you can distort or invent it. In one of the many strange reversals in our seminatural world, humans have somehow managed to make being afraid more important than whether or not there’s any reason to be so.”

The whole article may be found at https://orionmagazine.org/article/fear-itself/ .

— Mark