Richard Langston — Hill walk

Poetry Unbound

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In Richard Langston’s poem “Hill walk,” he proffers a handful of things that move us over the course of a day — words said or read, notes played, the sight of halting steps taken by a sibling. We marvel at the sound of an unfamiliar bird call, but there’s a startling mystery to the human heart and what it responds to (or doesn’t) and one that we don’t always mark.

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0:00.0	Hi, friends, I've got some news for you. I've got two books coming out in early 2025.
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0:32.3	My name is Podrig Otuma,
0:34.2	and those lists that you see on social media or in newspapers or online articles that say
0:39.7	how to in five steps draw me in as much as anybody else has drawn in, you know, how to be fitter,
0:45.4	how to be healthier, how to be more productive, how to be this, how to be that. And some of them
0:51.0	have got really good ideas. But one of the things that they're doing is they're promising a way within which change can happen.
0:57.4	But sometimes often, change happens in surprising ways in a way that you're not prepared for at all.
1:03.5	Sometimes beautifully, sometimes brutally.
1:06.3	Change just comes.
1:07.5	And we're there to look at it, to respond respond and to try to figure out what to do in
1:12.1	the aftermath and also try to figure out how did that happen and where did it come from.
1:22.5	Hill Walk by Richard Langston. We often wonder what moves us in a day.
1:30.6	Was it words in a sequence that surprised us?
1:33.9	Or notes played by someone who kept their mouth closed
1:37.2	and let the sound leave their broken body?
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