Emma Lou Thayne

My biography for the week is on Emma Lou Thayne, LDS poet. Here are the first few lines of an article in the December 1977 Ensign:

The Walker and the Walk - Emma Lou Thayne

"The Walker and the walk-there's the combination. Give a journey to one person and he'll find nothing but impediments like puddles, dug-up streets, lights that don't change fast enough-all of them combining to slow him from reaching his destination.

"But give another the same route and the journey will be an adventure, with many delightful arrivals along the way. He'll splash or toss rocks in the puddles, marvel at the roots that somehow manage to volcano the asphalt streets and the workmen who know how to fill and sear them smooth. When he waits for a light to send him on, he wonders at the skyline or about the driver that just slid by.

"For any walker the panorama is his to switch on and off with his consciousness, and his will alone controls the quality of the reception."