Neighborhood

I live in Enderis Park, a neighborhood in Milwaukee. For the first 7 years of living here I mostly left my home and returned to my home by car. Traveling by car is certainly one way to see things. You see things at the speed of car travel. That might be 25mph in your neighborhood, maybe slower sometimes, and definitely faster for some drivers. We’d go on the occasional walks now and then, and at a slower pace you can see more. You have time to take things in. You are also not locked into a steel soundproof box, so you hear things, come across people, see dogs, cats, rabbits… feel the breeze and the sunshine. In 2021 I started walking. I mean, I walked a lot. I would walk one to two hours per day sometimes. Miles and miles. And in all that walking, I got to know my neighborhood really good. I got familiar with all the streets, the houses, the businesses, and the cemetery. I knew which houses had barking dogs so I could avoid them, which had cats so I could go past them. I saw houses…