I’m not doing a good job. I’m certainly not doing a good job attending to this blog. The balancing act between the various responsibilities and interests in my life has been difficult of late and my riding has been limited exclusively to utilitarian travels between home and work, work and home. There is no doubt that I love the commute, but it is so short. I want to find time, no, make time, to have more riding adventures. Any of you expert jugglers have any ideas feel free to share them…
It has been foggy almost every morning for the past week and the world is magic. I took the camera out on Saturday and wandered on foot just drinking in the scenery. I’ll post a few of these pictures here now.
don’t have a lot of time right now to do more than let you know that I have not fallen off the world or given up contributing to this blog.
I am certain I will again find energy, motivation and time to ride, write and photograph.
Post when you should be sleeping. Get a really comfortable seat for the bike. Sleep on the way to work! Oh wait, that’s what “cagers” already do, isn’t it?
mule fritters. When did you become such a complacent blog writer?
An entire MFA degree and certainly 30 some years of working a full-time job should have taught you that you can’t just wait for a moment of inspiration to act on anything.
You have to create art when you don’t want to. You have to go to work and be productive when you don’t want to. You have to force yourself to make time for yourself to ride your vespa – even when you don’t want to. Before you know it, you will get a sense of the feeling that you have when you ride and you will crave it. It will begin to feel less like a job.
It is like that for me when I ride my bike (bicycle). Sometimes I just don’t want to do it and I force myself out of bed at 6 am to wake up and eat before I go – but once I get on the bike and get my brain to quit complaining – everything else follows suit and I relax. I actually enjoy myself!
You haven’t lost the knack – you have just let everything else become more important – and you definitely need to do something about it because reading the same story for a week straight sucks. 😛
Maybe you should allow guest bloggers to mix up the content a bit and give you some greater creative inspiration.
irondad: No sleeping on the way to work. I love the ride too much–wide, wide awake for that. I need to get up a bit earlier to have time for a more rambling ride to work.
Hannah: I understand the part about not waiting for inspiration. Easy to know, hard to live though. I’ve never been real good at forcing myself to do things.
I might start posting daily. One a day posts with a photo. Even if it just says “all work and no play makes Steve a dull boy…”
That’s it—I start today. I am going to post something even if it is noise….
steve
wow, hannah! You know how to give the father figure “what for”, don’t you? I’ve enjoyed reading your comments. You have the makings of a philosopher, yourself. I especially find it interesting that in the beginning you were very worried about Steve riding. Now you’re urging him to make time? Has your concern that he find his soul on the scooter outweighed your loving worry about him? You might be a born rider and not realize it yet!!
Dan