Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
On 09/08/2012 05:43 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: ...my neat little folding mountain bike and give my synapses a recharge. Share Long: Me too! 'Mountain' bike in the city? LoL! Except from the me tour de force club members a lot of people around here ride mountain bikes. Kind of useful for the mini-mountains we have in the city. Plus there are parks with mountain bike trails.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
Thanks. I'll use that video in my posts around here discussing the bicycle problem. That's exactly what I envision when I say bikeways. However as Turq has pointed out the Netherlands are flat so it is easier to ride a bike around there. Not so here. This town has hills and some stuff is in the valley and some on top of the hills. Getting up and down those steep hills would be a problem and often not tackled by the casual cyclist. Same true of course for San Francisco which is very hilly. Also California has many streets that appear to have been laid out before it even became a state or at least the property rights were. Washington state where I grew up was homesteaded so properties were laid out in square acres and streets evolving from that tended to be more straight and not winding and narrow as you find in some Californian communities. And people are very zealous about their property rights and if you wanted to build bikeways it might be very expensive not from construction but from getting the easements. To give you an example of what I encounter here, my street is straight and wide with nice sidewalks on both sides. Cyclists would have no trouble negotiating it. But the next block up is narrow and winding so dealing with bikes there is a bit difficult. On 09/08/2012 10:29 PM, merudanda wrote: ...can't resist How the Dutch got their cycle paths http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o 3 year old Chinese Boy riding his bike against TurquoiseB kind of flow? or may be not? [http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-23-2012-5-07-\ 20-PM.jpg] [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/O8r8Zpf6rO4/0.jpg] China TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1wjkp3QiQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1wjkp3QiQ English version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV1BAyNECY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV1BAyNECY Set to the music of Born to be wild and bad motor scooter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8r8Zpf6rO4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8r8Zpf6rO4 uhh something (moi)more familiar [http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/china-goods-b\ icycle-grid.jpg] and traffic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5qxe3DqlI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5qxe3DqlI Bike guard(English ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGbbUvYaxs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGbbUvYaxs [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AF1sd6ASHe8/0.jpg] something for Turquoiseb NL canal ride? [http://en.ce.cn/Life/gallery/200705/30/W020070530565674328769.jpg] have a nice Sunday.. over there --wherever you are [http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-110510-rain-\ da.photoblog900.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 09/08/2012 03:37 AM, turquoiseb wrote: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vid\ \ eo/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vi\ \ deo/ Today I'm on my bike. And it never ceases to amaze me what a mood-uplifter a bicycle is. It's like walking, which I love, but more enegy-efficient. Besides you get to feel the breeze in your face, which always get me high. So several times a week I try to remind myself to Get On The Wheel, and go out on my neat little folding mountain bike and give my synapses a recharge. A good bike ride never fails to uplift me and remind me how wondrous life is. I suspect my main man Bruce Cockburn feels similarly, seeing as how his song above was inspired by a bike ride around Montreal. But because I'm me, and my predilection is to segue from sequitur to seeming non-sequitur, naturally in this cafe taking a break on my ride I have to segue from Getting On The Wheel to its opposite, Getting Off The Wheel. You hear a lot about Getting Off The Wheel in spiritual circles. To some it means getting off the wheel of birth and death and rebirth, and is synonymous with Getting Offa This Rock, and ending their physical existence entirely. Just not my cuppa tea. I kinda *like* it on this rock. The planet Earth has provided me with endless wonders during the years I've been privileged to walk it. And bike it. :-) Being drawn that way in a kind of Tantric freehand, I tend to like life a lot, and don't really feel any impetus to end the incarnation process. I mean, how much FUN is it going to be being an ocean, having merged into it and abandoned one's status as a lowly drop of water? It's FUN being a drop. Call me crazy, but I think that living on this rock and being able to enjoy its ups -- and its downs -- is just gangbusters. A real E-ticket ride, a veritable roller coaster of delight. If there *is* such a thing as reincarnation, sign me right up. I'm all over that. Then again, I was the guy getting off the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland and immediately getting back in line to go on the ride again. Ups, downs,
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
On 09/09/2012 09:48 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Thanks. I'll use that video in my posts around here discussing the bicycle problem. That's exactly what I envision when I say bikeways. However as Turq has pointed out the Netherlands are flat so it is easier to ride a bike around there. I didn't bother replying to your first diatribe against bikes and bikers because...uh...I've heard it before and not only is it old and crotchety :-), it's based on experiences in a gas-guzzling, me-me- me culture, the United States. You mean as opposed to old and foolish? :-D That's what I see and worry about around here. If you hit a cyclist even if it was their error they try to throw the book at you. It's too bad some the cyclists aren't as observant as some of us motorists. But you know the US is gas guzzling because the oligarchs wanted it that way and it is much more spread out so cars were more the answer. Then they got uppity about what kind of transit systems to have and the Bay Area went with this expensive BART thing which has proved difficult to extend out into other areas. And then CalTrains, BART and bus systems are all independent of each other so you can't just get one pass as you can in some cities like Chicago and use it all over regardless of the system. Dumb, dumb, dumb. And motorists aren't the only folks who worry about cyclists. Pedestrians need to worry too. The strident cyclists act like people should neither drive nor walk. In San Francisco recently a cyclist who was a racer type had one of these bikes with no brakes and couldn't stop coming on a crosswalk, hit an old man and killed him. Don't ask me why anyone would want a bike with no brakes but a couple weeks afterward I heard some of the local riding club members complaining about clubs getting flack for that. And you talk about cliques, these riding clubs are the epitome. I like to make sure I don't arrive at the downtown Starbucks too late or they'll come riding in and take up all the patio tables and then maybe half of them get anything at from Starbucks. IOW, cyclists do a pretty good job of turning the public against them. I'm also reminded of my nephew (in his late 50s) who recently bought a bike and is all gung-ho about it. Thing is he used to complain about cyclists too. As noted, the Netherlands is different. Yes, it's flat, and that makes the prospect of biking more amenable to many. But there are other factors involved in why things have evolved here to the point that over 50% of all commutes to work are by bicycle. And probably short too. Around here the commutes are sometimes 50 miles one way. Crazy! I made the damnable mistake of buying essentially at the north end of the East Bay when I need to live near the South Bay where I could play Silicon Valley roulette. However housing prices in the South Bay were ridiculous when I bought here in 2000. I bought because I was paying for a one bedroom/den apartment what a mortgage payment would be and got small 4 bedroom home for that kind of money. And in a nice area. First, the Netherlands has a history that the U.S. does not. It's been through two wars, during which the only people who could get gasoline to drive cars were either the rich or the Nazis or those who collaborators with them. Now that gas is more plentiful, it is also as far as I know the most expensive in Europe. It is taxed heavily to pay for the numerous social services that the Netherlands extends to its citizens, and to maintain the roads that auto drivers use. Also the video Merunanda posted points out that WWII damaged so many buildings that they had to rebuild and made streets wider which allowed them to eventually accommodate bike lanes. Not so easy in the property zealous US. And old railroad and transit right of ways have been turned into bike and hiking paths. Second, there is an *infrastructure* here to support the use of bicycles. There is hardly an inch of road in the Netherlands that does not have a bike lane on each side of the street. There is literally nowhere in the country you can go -- and safely -- via bike. There are special stop/go lights for cyclists, and buttons to push while on your bike to get them to change, if they aren't turning automatically as the result of detecting the metal of your bike waiting to cross the street. Both front and rear lights are mandated. But, interestingly, helmets are not. The reason is that the Dutch -- ever the pragmatic lot -- did a bunch of studies and surveys and found that the wearing of helmets not only didn't reduce the number of bike accident injuries, they *increased* them. I have no idea why this would be, but those were the statistics. They would probably obstruct vision and probably not so necessary for a casual biker who isn't go at race speeds. And the Dutch folks may be more
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
Is there a refund on unused coupons? Or much needed cash in this life? But let's see Woody Guthrie: 'Take it easy, but take it.', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogtZ4EUwww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogtZ4EUwww Through the travail of ages, midst the pomp and toils of cycling, have I pedaled and strove and perished, countless times among the stars. As if through a glass and darkly, the age old strife I see, when I cycle in many guises and many names, on bike but always me.' * You're Wright at this very cycle, This curtains may come down Steps of the stages, Handing back the crown. That cycle soon may be over, But surely you see? The king may be dead, But that wasn't me. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: Seems you live dangerous ordained Dudeist Wright/Wrong in white tonight : he don't know if it's right or wrong maybe he should tell someone he's not sure just what it was or if it's against the law Congratulations, Meru! If I had had to guess who here might have answered this correctly, it would have been you. Here, as promised, is your prize: [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7954827168_6a90a1aff6.jpg] http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7954827168_6a90a1aff6.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7954827168_6a90a1aff6.jpg ** Answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1OAkWGUMKY Something happened to me yesterday Something, I can't speak of right away Something happened to me, something, oh, so groovy Something happened to me yesterday He don't know if it's right or wrong Maybe he should tell someone He's not sure just what it was Or if it's against the law, something Something very strange I hear you say You're talking in a most peculiar way But something really threw me, something, oh, so groovy Something happened to me yesterday (Yesterday) He don't know just where it's gone He don't really care at all No one's sure just what it was Or the meaning and the cause, something What kinda joint is this? Take your partners He don't know if it's right or wrong Maybe he should tell someone He's not sure just what it was Or if it's against the law, something Someone says there's something more to pay For sins that you committed yesterday It's really rather drippy but something, oh, so trippy Something happened to me yesterday Right, he don't know just where it's gone He don't really care at all No one's sure just what it was Or the meaning and the cause, something Someone's singing loud across the bay Sittin' on a mat about to pray Isn't half as looney as something, oh, so groovy Something happened to me yesterday Right, he don't know if it's right or wrong Maybe he should tell someone He's not sure just what it was Or if it's against the law, something Well, thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go. So from all of us to all of you, not forgetting the boys in the band, and our producer, Reg Thorpe, we'd like to say God Bless. So, if you're out tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike, wear white. Amen
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
Doc sez: yeah, I love bikes too - great vid for waking up Saturday morning. Thanks! I haven't listened to much Bruce Cockburn - like his style - what I call sad, hopeful songs. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vid\ eo/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vi\ deo/ Today I'm on my bike. And it never ceases to amaze me what a mood-uplifter a bicycle is. It's like walking, which I love, but more enegy-efficient. Besides you get to feel the breeze in your face, which always get me high. So several times a week I try to remind myself to Get On The Wheel, and go out on my neat little folding mountain bike and give my synapses a recharge. A good bike ride never fails to uplift me and remind me how wondrous life is. I suspect my main man Bruce Cockburn feels similarly, seeing as how his song above was inspired by a bike ride around Montreal. But because I'm me, and my predilection is to segue from sequitur to seeming non-sequitur, naturally in this cafe taking a break on my ride I have to segue from Getting On The Wheel to its opposite, Getting Off The Wheel. You hear a lot about Getting Off The Wheel in spiritual circles. To some it means getting off the wheel of birth and death and rebirth, and is synonymous with Getting Offa This Rock, and ending their physical existence entirely. Just not my cuppa tea. I kinda *like* it on this rock. The planet Earth has provided me with endless wonders during the years I've been privileged to walk it. And bike it. :-) Being drawn that way in a kind of Tantric freehand, I tend to like life a lot, and don't really feel any impetus to end the incarnation process. I mean, how much FUN is it going to be being an ocean, having merged into it and abandoned one's status as a lowly drop of water? It's FUN being a drop. Call me crazy, but I think that living on this rock and being able to enjoy its ups -- and its downs -- is just gangbusters. A real E-ticket ride, a veritable roller coaster of delight. If there *is* such a thing as reincarnation, sign me right up. I'm all over that. Then again, I was the guy getting off the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland and immediately getting back in line to go on the ride again. Ups, downs, whatever. Doesn't matter. All that seems to matter is finding a way to enjoy the ride. If you're on your bike, wear white. ** ** Prize to the person who can correctly identify this olde rock 'n roll reference.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: Is there a refund on unused coupons? Or much needed cash in this life? But let's see Woody Guthrie: 'Take it easy, but take it.', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogtZ4EUwww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogtZ4EUwww Through the travail of ages, midst the pomp and toils of cycling, have I pedaled and strove and perished, countless times among the stars. As if through a glass and darkly, the age old strife I see, when I cycle in many guises and many names, on bike but always me.' * Those who equate American labor unions with Joseph Stalin are not thinking seriously. Those who think the workers should simply accept whatever the capitalist class does to them has a very low opinion of American workers. If the workers do not unite, the bankers and stock brokers will rob them of everything. Those#65279; who place their faith in the bankers like Goldman Sachs and politicians they own, do so at their own risk. You're Wright at this very cycle, This curtains may come down Steps of the stages, Handing back the crown. That cycle soon may be over, But surely you see? The king may be dead, But that wasn't me. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: Seems you live dangerous ordained Dudeist Wright/Wrong in white tonight : he don't know if it's right or wrong maybe he should tell someone he's not sure just what it was or if it's against the law Congratulations, Meru! If I had had to guess who here might have answered this correctly, it would have been you. Here, as promised, is your prize: [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7954827168_6a90a1aff6.jpg] http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7954827168_6a90a1aff6.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7954827168_6a90a1aff6.jpg ** Answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1OAkWGUMKY Something happened to me yesterday Something, I can't speak of right away Something happened to me, something, oh, so groovy Something happened to me yesterday He don't know if it's right or wrong Maybe he should tell someone He's not sure just what it was Or if it's against the law, something Something very strange I hear you say You're talking in a most peculiar way But something really threw me, something, oh, so groovy Something happened to me yesterday (Yesterday) He don't know just where it's gone He don't really care at all No one's sure just what it was Or the meaning and the cause, something What kinda joint is this? Take your partners He don't know if it's right or wrong Maybe he should tell someone He's not sure just what it was Or if it's against the law, something Someone says there's something more to pay For sins that you committed yesterday It's really rather drippy but something, oh, so trippy Something happened to me yesterday Right, he don't know just where it's gone He don't really care at all No one's sure just what it was Or the meaning and the cause, something Someone's singing loud across the bay Sittin' on a mat about to pray Isn't half as looney as something, oh, so groovy Something happened to me yesterday Right, he don't know if it's right or wrong Maybe he should tell someone He's not sure just what it was Or if it's against the law, something Well, thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go. So from all of us to all of you, not forgetting the boys in the band, and our producer, Reg Thorpe, we'd like to say God Bless. So, if you're out tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike, wear white. Amen
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Today I'm on my bike... Doc sez: yeah, I love bikes too - great vid for waking up Saturday morning... = __o \`, = (*) % (*)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
...my neat little folding mountain bike and give my synapses a recharge. Share Long: Me too! 'Mountain' bike in the city? LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
Today I'm on my bike... Doc sez: yeah, I love bikes too - great vid for waking up Saturday morning... = __o \`, = (*) % (*) Sorry, that should be: = __o \`, = (*) % (*)
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Today I'm on my bike... Doc sez: yeah, I love bikes too - great vid for waking up Saturday morning... = __o \`, = (*) % (*) Sorry, that should be: = __o \`, = (*) % (*) = __o \`, = (*) % (*) o
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
...can't resist How the Dutch got their cycle paths http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o 3 year old Chinese Boy riding his bike against TurquoiseB kind of flow? or may be not? [http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-23-2012-5-07-\ 20-PM.jpg] [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/O8r8Zpf6rO4/0.jpg] China TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1wjkp3QiQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1wjkp3QiQ English version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV1BAyNECY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV1BAyNECY Set to the music of Born to be wild and bad motor scooter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8r8Zpf6rO4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8r8Zpf6rO4 uhh something (moi)more familiar [http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/china-goods-b\ icycle-grid.jpg] and traffic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5qxe3DqlI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5qxe3DqlI Bike guard(English ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGbbUvYaxs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGbbUvYaxs [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AF1sd6ASHe8/0.jpg] something for Turquoiseb NL canal ride? [http://en.ce.cn/Life/gallery/200705/30/W020070530565674328769.jpg] have a nice Sunday.. over there --wherever you are [http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-110510-rain-\ da.photoblog900.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 09/08/2012 03:37 AM, turquoiseb wrote: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vid\ \ eo/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vi\ \ deo/ Today I'm on my bike. And it never ceases to amaze me what a mood-uplifter a bicycle is. It's like walking, which I love, but more enegy-efficient. Besides you get to feel the breeze in your face, which always get me high. So several times a week I try to remind myself to Get On The Wheel, and go out on my neat little folding mountain bike and give my synapses a recharge. A good bike ride never fails to uplift me and remind me how wondrous life is. I suspect my main man Bruce Cockburn feels similarly, seeing as how his song above was inspired by a bike ride around Montreal. But because I'm me, and my predilection is to segue from sequitur to seeming non-sequitur, naturally in this cafe taking a break on my ride I have to segue from Getting On The Wheel to its opposite, Getting Off The Wheel. You hear a lot about Getting Off The Wheel in spiritual circles. To some it means getting off the wheel of birth and death and rebirth, and is synonymous with Getting Offa This Rock, and ending their physical existence entirely. Just not my cuppa tea. I kinda *like* it on this rock. The planet Earth has provided me with endless wonders during the years I've been privileged to walk it. And bike it. :-) Being drawn that way in a kind of Tantric freehand, I tend to like life a lot, and don't really feel any impetus to end the incarnation process. I mean, how much FUN is it going to be being an ocean, having merged into it and abandoned one's status as a lowly drop of water? It's FUN being a drop. Call me crazy, but I think that living on this rock and being able to enjoy its ups -- and its downs -- is just gangbusters. A real E-ticket ride, a veritable roller coaster of delight. If there *is* such a thing as reincarnation, sign me right up. I'm all over that. Then again, I was the guy getting off the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland and immediately getting back in line to go on the ride again. Ups, downs, whatever. Doesn't matter. All that seems to matter is finding a way to enjoy the ride. If you're on your bike, wear white. ** ** Prize to the person who can correctly identify this olde rock 'n roll reference. Well bike riding will certainly make you more vata. :-D The bike riding club members around here all look like the quintessential vata types and strident as hell. We have bike lanes around here but we also have Darwin award candidates who ride the wrong way in them. Thing is that there are blind corners on many street and motorists won't be able to see a stupid cyclist going the wrong way. I could have hit on the street nearby where a sound wall blocks the view up the avenue and to even see that up that bike lane you would have to pull into it. Fortunately for the idiot there there was traffic so I was waiting for the light but just has they finished up going through before the light changed here is this mindless idiot going the wrong way in the bike lane. If I wasn't for waiting for the traffic I would have had a free right and would have smacked him. It would, of course, been his fault but I would have probably needed witnesses to prove that. And the avenue is only two lane so it would have been nothing for him to have just crossed it and ride in the correct lane. Tells you something about the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting On The Wheel
reviewing it again the boys QA- interrogation by the policeman- seems to be not translated: Q: Have you been afraid?mei you guan xi(just tell us-does not matter how you answer) A: NOT afraid(on the contrary -enjoyed it--and off he goes to another race-born to be wild) [http://p3.img.cctvpic.com/program/china24/20120525/images/1337911041235\ _1337911041235_r.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: ...can't resist How the Dutch got their cycle paths http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o 3 year old Chinese Boy riding his bike against TurquoiseB kind of flow? or may be not? [http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-23-2012-5-07-\ \ 20-PM.jpg] [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/O8r8Zpf6rO4/0.jpg] China TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1wjkp3QiQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1wjkp3QiQ English version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV1BAyNECY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV1BAyNECY Set to the music of Born to be wild and bad motor scooter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8r8Zpf6rO4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8r8Zpf6rO4 uhh something (moi)more familiar [http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/china-goods-b\ \ icycle-grid.jpg] and traffic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5qxe3DqlI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5qxe3DqlI Bike guard(English ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGbbUvYaxs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGbbUvYaxs [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AF1sd6ASHe8/0.jpg] something for Turquoiseb NL canal ride? [http://en.ce.cn/Life/gallery/200705/30/W020070530565674328769.jpg] have a nice Sunday.. over there --wherever you are [http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-110510-rain-\ \ da.photoblog900.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 09/08/2012 03:37 AM, turquoiseb wrote: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vid\ \ \ eo/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mu-140620/my_beat_bruce_cockburn_music_vi\ \ \ deo/ Today I'm on my bike. And it never ceases to amaze me what a mood-uplifter a bicycle is. It's like walking, which I love, but more enegy-efficient. Besides you get to feel the breeze in your face, which always get me high. So several times a week I try to remind myself to Get On The Wheel, and go out on my neat little folding mountain bike and give my synapses a recharge. A good bike ride never fails to uplift me and remind me how wondrous life is. I suspect my main man Bruce Cockburn feels similarly, seeing as how his song above was inspired by a bike ride around Montreal. But because I'm me, and my predilection is to segue from sequitur to seeming non-sequitur, naturally in this cafe taking a break on my ride I have to segue from Getting On The Wheel to its opposite, Getting Off The Wheel. You hear a lot about Getting Off The Wheel in spiritual circles. To some it means getting off the wheel of birth and death and rebirth, and is synonymous with Getting Offa This Rock, and ending their physical existence entirely. Just not my cuppa tea. I kinda *like* it on this rock. The planet Earth has provided me with endless wonders during the years I've been privileged to walk it. And bike it. :-) Being drawn that way in a kind of Tantric freehand, I tend to like life a lot, and don't really feel any impetus to end the incarnation process. I mean, how much FUN is it going to be being an ocean, having merged into it and abandoned one's status as a lowly drop of water? It's FUN being a drop. Call me crazy, but I think that living on this rock and being able to enjoy its ups -- and its downs -- is just gangbusters. A real E-ticket ride, a veritable roller coaster of delight. If there *is* such a thing as reincarnation, sign me right up. I'm all over that. Then again, I was the guy getting off the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland and immediately getting back in line to go on the ride again. Ups, downs, whatever. Doesn't matter. All that seems to matter is finding a way to enjoy the ride. If you're on your bike, wear white. ** ** Prize to the person who can correctly identify this olde rock 'n roll reference. Well bike riding will certainly make you more vata. :-D The bike riding club members around here all look like the quintessential vata types and strident as hell. We have bike lanes around here but we also have Darwin award candidates who ride the wrong way in them. Thing is that there are blind corners on many street and motorists won't be able to see a stupid cyclist going the wrong way. I could have hit on the street nearby where a sound wall blocks the view up the avenue and to even see that up that bike lane you would have to pull into it.
