Listening. Sometimes I like to walk with headphones listening to suitable forest music, or metal that gives me all sorts of different emotions, powerful and triumphant. Sometimes I listen to podcasts, though I limit this. Sometimes, mostly at the moment, I listen to audio books. I now associate the journey of the brave hobbits, enduring the land of Mordor with the mountains beyond Loch Laggan, for it was there that I last heard their tale; and it carried me on. But sometimes I like to use my ears and listen to the world around me. I can hear for miles and miles…