Daily bread 06/22/2020

• The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle – Brain Pickings

  • e ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again — if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man — then you are ready for a walk.

     

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• Colombia urged to rethink tax-free day after ‘Covid Friday’ | Financial Times

  • to scrap
  • eye-catching economic policies
  • to flout social distancing rules
  • Colombians flocked to shopping centres
  • pick up bargains.
  • long queues
  • flooded with images
  • people jostling to enter shops
  • hauling away
  • non-existent
  • from March onwards
  • to abandon or at least postpone
  • shoppers opted to buy online
  • struggled to cope with demand.
  • enticing them to shop
  • a spike in coronavirus numbers.
  • rising sharply
  • new cases topped 3,000.
  • seems to have peaked
  • the worst may be yet to come

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