Round the island

I recently walked around the perimeter of Manhattan – 32 miles – and that walk became a metaphor for me.

I’ve lived in NYC for six years and most of that walk covered places I had never been. During the walk I met people I never would have met otherwise, saw things I wouldn’t have otherwise, including driftwood sculptures, an enormous abandoned trellis, the big Columbia “C” visible from the Harlem River, a fisherman who caught a 2 foot fish.

No matter where you live or where you work, how often do you “walk around your island”?