daydreaming Archives - Scooter in the Sticks Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:06:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 71084491 Dogs and Scooters https://scooterinthesticks.com/2024/04/dogs-and-scooters/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2024/04/dogs-and-scooters/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:06:09 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=11049 Dogs and Scooters Make Good Teachers If I’m willing and not resistant or rigid in my belief that I know best in every situation I can learn something about myself and my life. Lily (left) and Aiden continually remind me of the power of simplicity and the joy hidden in the mundane and ordinary. Each […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2024/04/dogs-and-scooters/feed/ 21 11049 The Heart of the Ride https://scooterinthesticks.com/2020/12/the-heart-of-the-ride/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2020/12/the-heart-of-the-ride/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2020 05:10:00 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9856 The Heart of the Ride I wake in the middle of the night and think. Sometimes about riding. More often about the deranged state of everyday reality. I prefer thoughts of riding. Of moving, traveling, experiencing. It’s the heart of the ride. Autumn almost escaped. It’s the swiftest of seasons. The landscape changes from green […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2020/12/the-heart-of-the-ride/feed/ 18 9856 Promises of Home https://scooterinthesticks.com/2018/01/promises-of-home/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2018/01/promises-of-home/#comments Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:57:38 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=8234 The Gray World Drifting through the melancholy gray of winter with little desire to ride or write. The scooter moves through its cold morning stutters to support whatever weak explorations I mount. And then, mostly, my mind is full of promises of home. Home, warm and resting, until some change of mind and thought takes […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2018/01/promises-of-home/feed/ 23 8234 Just Thinking https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/08/just-thinking/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/08/just-thinking/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:46:53 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6735 Lost in Thought The past couple weeks I’ve had a lot on my mind — everything from retirement to installing a freeze-proof faucet on the back deck.  When my head gets full of ideas and wants to ruminate I’ve learned to sit back and let it happen.  Resistance is futile. My friend Paul made this […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/08/just-thinking/feed/ 23 6735 Shedding the Noise of the Day https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/07/shedding-the-noise-of-the-day/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/07/shedding-the-noise-of-the-day/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2016 04:40:53 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6717 Escape After a long day, as the day slows but the head still spins, a ride on the Vespa makes a world of difference.  Doesn’t matter where I go or what I see — just the sensation of movement and air flowing across skin — that changes everything. Made this photograph two miles from my […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/07/shedding-the-noise-of-the-day/feed/ 19 6717 Searching for Treasure https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/searching-for-treasure/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/searching-for-treasure/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2016 04:05:55 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6485 View From Above You never know what you might find — evidence of something. Or more. Searching for answers to simple questions haunts my imagination. Looking out over the valley I call home I wonder how I’ve come to this moment in my life where I’ve stood on this overlook countless times and never really […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/searching-for-treasure/feed/ 15 6485 Riding Kaleidoscope https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/05/riding-kaleidoscope/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/05/riding-kaleidoscope/#comments Mon, 30 May 2016 04:05:33 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6420 Are your weekends on your scooter or motorcycle a riding kaleidoscope? Winding Roads Some days, I swear I see better than others.  Objects seem to leap out toward my eyes and landscapes become small cinematic experiences.  It’s like a riding kaleidoscope where there’s a constant change of pattern, texture and form. Or maybe it’s just […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/05/riding-kaleidoscope/feed/ 16 6420 Coming Back Into View https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/04/coming-back-into-view/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/04/coming-back-into-view/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2016 04:55:45 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6201 Emerging from the Flu After eight days of the flu the world is coming back into view.  A walk in the garden this evening with the dogs, noticing the forsythia blossoms in the shady deer den — a private place where Kim and I can sit with journals and tea.  Until today I could only slog […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/riding-daydreams/feed/ 15 5854 Riding Tribes https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/riding-tribes/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/riding-tribes/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2015 12:25:07 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5313 I attended a conference last week that focused on the challenges of science communication at a time when political agendas and propaganda needs drive conversations — GMOs cause AIDS, the moon landing was a hoax, a foot bath will detoxify your body. And while it’s easy to ascribe positions to liberal or conservative, Democratic or […]

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