Patrick, Great poem! Interestingly I was reminiscing about my life with and on a bicycle. I was taught by a neighbor a small Japanese girl named Janine it was this huge black bike and I would ride it and crash into a neighbors garage door, later I recall becoming accomplished and loving the ride. Through the years I too went through phases with the bicycle 1. Learning 2. The Freedom of getting from one place to another efficiently. 3. The allure of the car as the grown up method of transportation. 4. The rediscovering of that freedom that really only the bicycle can offer.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedalpusher61/8767799947/ I grew up in a small town in Northern California and my entire Family would get on bikes and go for a ramble. I love bikes and especially love steel ones. Thanks again Deacon & Patrick very cool indeed. ~Hugh On Monday, May 20, 2013 5:22:43 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > " Talking About Bicycles > > "Talking about bicycles," said my friend, "I have been through the four > ages. I can remember a time in early childhood when a bicycle meant nothing > to me: it was just part of the huge meaningless background of grown-up > gadgets against which life went on. Then came a time when to have a > bicycle, and to have learned to ride it, and to be at last spinning along > on one's own, early in the morning, under trees, in and out of the shadows, > was like entering Paradise. That apparently effortless and frictionless > gliding--more like swimming than any other motion, but really most like the > discovery of a fifth element--that seemed to have solved the secret of > life. Now one would begin to be happy. But, of course, I soon reached the > third period. Pedalling to and fro from school (it was one of those > journeys that feel up-hill both ways) in all weathers, soon revealed the > prose of cycling. The bicycle, itself, became to me what his oar is to a > galley slave." > > "But what was the fourth age?" I asked. > > "I am in it now, or rather I am frequently in it. I have had to go back to > cycling lately now that there's no car. And the jobs I use it for are often > dull enough. But again and again the mere fact of riding brings back a > delicious whiff of memory. I recover the feelings of the second age. What's > more, I see how true they were--how philosophical, even. For it really is a > remarkably pleasant motion. To be sure, it is not a recipe for happiness as > I then thought. In that sense the second age was a mirage. But a mirage of > something." > > "How do you mean?", said I. > > "I mean this. Whether there is, or whether there is not, in this world or > in any other, the kind of happiness which one's first experiences of > cycling seemed to promise, still, on any view, it is something to have had > the idea of it. The value of the thing promised remains even if that > particular promise was false--even if all possible promises of it are > false."" > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:01 AM, IanA <atte...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > >> I think cycling is the closet feeling humans get to being a bird - a >> sense of flying. I love to hear the sound of the tires rolling along and >> to know that any momentum is from personal effort and balance. It must be >> good for the soul as much as the brain. >> >> Ian A. >> >> On Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:22:01 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: >>> >>> Today is a "hard" brain day. Yet I was able to hop on the bike and >>> slowly peddle my way to the falls a mile and a half away and 300 feet up. >>> My brain did a wee bit better after that excursion, and hopefully it helped >>> me recover some, so that tomorrow will be better than "hard" for my brain. >>> >>> The bike is an amazing gift of freedom. Thanks Grant and company! >>> >>> With abandon, >>> Patrick >>> >>> *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org* >>> *www.OurHolyConception.org* >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > patric...@resumespecialties.com <javascript:> > > Albuquerque, NM > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
