I can't watch the video- it isn't captioned, so I don't know the details, but I get the gist of it.
For what it's worth, I ride my bike first thing in the morning if I can, and it's usually the only time I get to ride. I just go to the coffee shop, fill my thermos, and go outside and watch the sun rise or people going in and out and have a small cup (it's a big thermos). Sometimes I write, sometimes I just sit there, sometimes I read the poem of the day in writer's almanac. Seth was the one who did the coffee ride- he'd ride every morning to bring us coffee, and he'd try to do it daily with exception of some very frigid mornings (he's a Southern boy after all). Sometimes it would be his only ride the whole day. I thought I'd try it out, and I've found a route that works for me (low key, very little traffic, wide roads, some hills). It's only 2 miles total, but it is definitely my happy place. When I ride to the coffeeshop, I ride into the sunrise, and when I'm ready to go back, the sun is behind me and has warmed me up. Most mornings I feel like singing at top of my lungs (though I stay quiet out of respect for my neighbors). And always, I feel like I'm riding with Seth when I ride my bike. I get to see dogs being walked, say hi to my neighbors, watch flights of birds, try not to run over inexperienced baby squirrels, and see the trees in bloom (currently, dogwoods, redbuds, magnolias, though thankfully, bradford pears are done for now). Soon it will be honeysuckle and jessamine time. I'm beginning to understand why he liked the morning rides. And no, there's no reason to ride to the coffeeshop other than that it feels like a sacred ritual that is both fun and invigorating and well, just brings me joy. The rare, unadulterated kind of joy that can coexist with the ever-present grief. And I'll always have Seth to thank for that (he taught me to ride a bike uhmm, 9 years ago). Enjoy the ride. -Eunice On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Esteban <proto...@gmail.com> wrote: > The New York Times has an Op-Doc telling the story of a local San Diego > resident who skates in slow motion along the boardwalk. You may have > already seen it. I posted about it here, including a link to the 16 minute > documentary: > > http://veloflaneur.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/moving-forward/ > > I'm not sure why, but I wrote it for you all and wanted to share the video > with this group as soon as I saw it. Why? > > It reminded me of Just Ride - you don't need to give everything up to get > a little stoke in your life. Just ride around the block during a 15 minute > break from whatever else you are doing. > > > Well, it gets really interesting around 8:45. There, Slomo talks about the > neuroscience of forward motion. I don't know enough about neuroscience to > call it out as BS, but its still a great story. Maybe that's one of the > reasons why bike riding is so fun? Why do I feel my friendships formed > through sharing bike rides are so strong? Maybe because we are experiencing > stoke together. Seth Vidal is right. Enjoy. > > Regards! > Esteban > San Diego, Calif. > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
