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On The Move: A Life and Proximity

Santiago Canyon Road is a remote highway that strings together two populace areas of Orange County. The Canyon feels like a portal to certainly another place, possibly another time. To drive the canyon is to leave one manicured strip mall city for another, but with a long sigh between of space and hills and horses and yards filled with project vehicles. It feels like a brief vacation from suburbia. The road has a bike lane. Cyclists, aerodynamic as wasps, zip through the canyon nonstop. But there is no sidewalk and not much shoulder, so I won't run there, except for a several hundred yard exception. Rancho Las Lomas is an event center that maintains a small truck trail in front of their property. Tucked in a tunnel of live oaks and bushy hedges, this little stretch allows for a pleasant loop from the two ends of Ridgeline, the street that connects to my neighborhood.   Neurologist Oliver Sacks describes himself  as a “physician, teacher and storyteller” in On The Move,   his seco

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