LummoxBlog

1) You don't understand most of what is happening right now. Not by a longshot.

2) Things don't stay like this.

and so it was that the student asked the master;

how many of the ones and zeros

how many of the circumstances and events

had to line up just so

to get to this point right here

to make things precisely as they are?

 

the master answered;

all of them

the next big storm we get

i am laying down in the front yard

on my back

listen to the wind and the thunder

jets flying low

on account of conditions

the raindrops begin

because from time to time

there will be things that you want dearly

and you will have to fight for them

you will have to listen for a call

that starts inside you and reaches outward

racing is good practice

A vast journey can only be accomplished with small steps, repeated patiently until the traveler has grown as large as his journey. And the traveler is never alone.

life

(true life, that is,)

(riding, racing, art, love)

springs from a field of potential that is

limitless, boundless

not miserly, not restricted

go ahead

open up

there is plenty

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

~Rachel Carson

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Well I am off to Leadville to the last of the winter bike series up there, should be fun. Weather is highly iffy, chance for rain. What will a snow bike race be like on cross country ski trails in the rain?

behold; the opportunity to do things well

I am God in nature

I am a weed by the wall

~Ralph Waldo Emerson