Just recently twice people that I like and would otherwise behave very nicely and respectfully had called me stupid because I choose to occasionally ride without a helmet. One said that she wasn’t calling ME stupid, just saying that choosing to ride sans protection was a stupid decision. Well, as Forest Gump’s mother used to [...]
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Silent desperation
May 23rd, 2010
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Sometimes riding around rush hour in the afternoon I look at the driver’s faces… very few are smiling. Quite the opposite. Bad attitudes, driving home in a hurry, kids screaming in the back seat. I don’t want their lives.
Or those that would love to stay longer at the party, that would love to escape for [...]
Death, meditation, life
April 19th, 2010
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Since I began this trip I received the news about three friends of mine who died. One was taken away by cancer, one in a car accident, and another succumbed to madness and subsequent homelessness on a straight path downwards to the grave.
All this time on the motorcycle, meditating, thinking about this and much more, [...]
