Morning Walk

As the poem so perfectly states, people with Parkinson's want to be remembered
“from the inside out," seen but not pitied, considered but not treated
as "less than." This film honors that request, equally celebrating reality
and the things we do to cope with reality.
— Zack Grant, filmmaker

"Morning Walk" is a meditation on Parkinson's Disease, narrated by and featuring Grant's own Parkinson's-afflicted mother.


Morning Walk
by Joyce Sutphen

The air is fresh this morning—
and I am walking fast.

Hey listen! My bones are happy
inside my skin; my fingers

are snapping so I add
a step or two—a skip

step, step, and step aside.
I can almost forget

that I have what I have,

but I never do. I notice

the wind shaking hands

with the branches; the sky

threading blue through my

eyes. This is how I’d like

you to remember me: from

the inside out; back when

my heart was folded

so neatly under my ribs.