![]() A studious person who would rather be warmly ensconced in a library researching some arcane topic than having contact with the Great Outdoors and fresh air, perhaps taking only a few hundred steps a day. The stereotypical image of a curator is a bespectacled person sitting still and quiet in a dusty attic room with stacks of books - a general air of organised chaos abounding. But I also mentioned that in my previous life as a curator, I often walked 20,000 steps a day. During the question-and-answer session afterwards, the first questioner asked me, "how was it possible for you to be able to walk 21 kilometres, especially at the beginning of your year of walking?" I admitted that it wasn't easy, and I was full of aches and pains for days afterwards. I gave a book reading to the Alpine Club of Vienna about my book Walking into Alchemy. But the steps I take now are much more valuable and improve my general and mental health, "work" steps are entirely different, and they are not always good for you. ![]() But, when I was a curator, it was not unusual for me to clock up 20,000 steps a day. I usually walk the designated 10,000 steps a day either in my garden or in the hills and mountains of Southern Austria, where I now live. Tribute to the artist Carl Spitzweg by Peter Fischer. The life of a scholar and curator may not be as sedentary as you think. ![]()
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