The time of year comes again when food springs forth, and there is a’plenty… Greens anyone? My partner gave this garden life, she really deserves thanks in this. Thanks Sweetie! You’ve certainly earned a meal prepared from the bounty!
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And now for the 2009 Friends of Tamarancho Invitational race report: I won [...]
My life has suddenly become very full. I have accepted a co-director position with The Bicycle Works here in Fairfax. Check out the website to get an overview of what we’re about: www.thebicycleworks.org. It’s very exciting to be involved in such a forward-looking project. These times demand a different, creative vision, and The Bicycle Works [...]
An amazing winter ride from the top of Mt. Tam to Muir Beach. Coastal View trail was in fine form that day! This is one of my favorite legal Marin singletrack rides; a couple thousand feet of descending on some swoopy, fast lines heading down to the ocean. Fantastic views of, well, [...]
Do you see it? All around us, from the largest of our institutions on the world stage, to the very fabric of our national being; the structures we know are fraying from the inside-out. This is a time of realigning and rebalancing, and to see this process in play allows us insight [...]
In keeping with my re-focused attention toward bikes and bike info, I will finally post this long-awaited review of my sweet new daily rider, the Breezer Finesse. It has been a real treat to ride such a machine, in fact, I haven’t enjoyed being on the road nearly as much as I do now. [...]
It’s so easy to get caught-up in the mess we’re in. All the indicators for many years have foretold this unravelling, and now that it’s actually happening, I am finding myself fascinated in an unhealthy way. I spend way too much time reading about things I have no control over, studying details irrelevant [...]
This is all happening so fast. You may have noticed it yourself. Spiraling happenings, feeding from the currents to build destructive force. Sweeping force, force that moves civilizations, shakes foundations. Uncertainty abounds, and in this new territory, unexplored, vast, none can say what will unfold.
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Many weeks have passed since my last [...]
It’s all around us. Powerful, undeniable, relentless. It visits us in our dreams, slides between the lines of our rote thought. And in this Truth lies both our damnation, as well as our salvation.
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Most by now will not deny that we are on the wrong path, collectively. Yet most still refuse [...]
As I roll out on my daily commute, this chosen lifestyle continues to reward and invigorate. Passing those single drivers in their polluting behemoths, stuck in a frantic, wild-eyed race to nowhere, I realize again and again how lucky I am not to be trapped in that cage. I wonder how many of [...]
Well, on a personal level, right now, I have found Heaven on Earth. It’s just that great. Love has leapt its lovely self into my lap again, and she sets my heart to pitter-pattering. A smile lights me up at the many thoughts of her, so I’m smiling near perpetually…
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My job is [...]