In reviewing my earlier bicycling lessons posts, I noted a certain innocence in the writing. COVID has changed a lot of things for me – for all of us, so I thought that the topic might be worth updating. I have shared that bicycling, as well as other forms of athletic endeavor, offers us opportunities…
Reality… what a concept. (Thank you, Mr. Williams.) COVID-19 has afforded us lots of opportunities to examine the reality of our world as seen through many eyes. We live in a diverse world and do not all see the same thing. Conformity to dogma does not produce resilience, only compliant followers. Participating in group-thought that…
I miss the quiet of childhood. When nothing was going on in my immediate vicinity and I was just SO BORED. I was so bored in fact, that I had to go make my own entertainment, which was likely my parents’ intention all along. Upon reflection, there was something profound in overcoming that boredom. A…
Cycling teaches us plenty. How to take care of ourselves. How to take care of others. How to handle change. Some of us just pick up the learning more readily than others. We can rationalize, avoid, and attack the things that we don’t want to do, but the natural world eventually wins out. Sort of…
Cycling really takes you places, the greatest of which is a place to think. The rhythm of breath and legs create a different mental setting. (I like to think of it as an action meditation) where problems float in, are looked at, turned upside down, and maybe even turned inside out. At the end of…
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