One of my great joys in life is one of the simplest: looking at the world around me. I often walk along the C&O Canal, a defunct marvel of 19th century transportation engineering that reaches west from Washington, D.C. As I walk, I look. And even though I have strolled the towpath so many times before, I always see something new.
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