Pedaling my where’s….
Yesterday my bike took me for a ride. Ok maybe I had a little to do with it, but off we went. I had to test the new brake pads. I had to find out if the wheels needed to be trued. I had to get her out of the basement, out on the road, to run her through the gears. Ok maybe I blamed the bike. Maybe I needed to get out.
The question surfaced early on, ‘where?’ Where am I going? On this trip? Throughout the year? Where will all those wants and desires take me this year? My body began pedaling. My mind was pedaling too. Pedaling ideas? It was a ten mile path, following a brook, through the woods, passing by trillium in spectacular bloom. I stopped.
Here is where. Here is where I sat last year. Here is where I smoked a cigar. Where I watched the ducks play. Where I ate an orange and pondered nothing in particular. Here is where I wondered, where are these moments each day? Do they hide or am I too distracted?
I pedalled back to where I began. I returned to the car. I drove to the house, to the garage. I returned my bike into shadow. Grateful. Where had I been? Everything was different, but nothing has changed. Where does one journey end and another begin? MikePerry.biz