The Walking Man

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Moving in silent desperation.   

Keeping an eye on the Holy land.   

A hypothetical destination.   

Say, who is this walking man?

We are on another beautiful island in September. No litter. No car dealerships. No plastic signs sticking in the ground. Beautiful farmland. After stop at Gay Head, I mean Aquinnah (you can’t call it Gay Head anymore, our tour bus driver stops in the middle of her schpiel to point out a man standing on the side of the road on the south side of the island with a white beard. She says that he is none other than the walking man from James Taylor’s fifth album (c. 1974). Titled, you won’t believe this …….  Walking Man.

Backing vocals on the album were by Carly Simon and Linda & Paul McCartney.

Carly’s club "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is for sale.

Those beautiful small houses that the Methodists built in 1866 are still here. The area at Oak Bluffs reminds us of Cape May, New Jersey.  A sign on one of the houses says that General Ulysses S. Grant visited. 

 This year Martha’s Vineyard is worked by about five hundred kids from Bulgaria. I ask our waitress if they have water in Bulgaria and she replies that they do. They also have internet and computers. Shocking! YCMUSL this.

Any other man stops and talks. 

But the walking man walks.