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Motivation (and lack thereof)

It’s a gorgeous spring afternoon … and what am I doing? I’m sitting on my couch composing this stupid blog entry about my complete and utter lack of motivation to get outside and do anything.

I think part of my malaise today comes from reading Mama Grrrlie’s most recent blog entry on turning 39. MG [...]

Quote of the Day

“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” — The Olympic Creed

2009 Ride #41

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Well that pretty much sucked ass. Legs felt great. Everything else felt like shit. Heart rate skyrocketed, averaging 160. Average speed was just a hair over 14 mph, and this was mostly flat/false-flate riding. It wasn’t a struggle to turn my legs over, but [...]

Poetry Friday

PRAISE SONG FOR THE DAY A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration

Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on [...]

Resolutions

It’s no secret to those that know me that self-confidence is not one of my strong points. It’s not that I completely lack confidence in myself, but that the base upon which that confidence is built is fragile, and it doesn’t take much to knock me on my ass.

I know that I’m extremely intelligent [...]

2009 Tour of Georgia Cancelled

I completely missed this on VeloNews and CyclingNews.com this past Friday, just stumbling across this article on the BBC this morning.

BBC SPORT | Other sport… | Cycling | 2009 Tour of Georgia is scrapped

The Tour of Georgia, one of American’s cycling’s most prestigious events, has been cancelled for next season.

Created in 2003, [...]

Quote of the Day

Kind of wish I had received this before posting recent reactionary blog posts … but will be something to keep in mind going forward.

THE POWER OF AN AUTUMN LEAF

In working with the setting sun or confused world, the attitude of the warrior is like an autumn leaf floating down a river. It doesn’t [...]

A nomad growing roots

Nomads at last | Economist.com

Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other, says Andreas Kluth.

Illustration by Bell Mellor

AT THE Nomad Café in Oakland, California, Tia Katrina Canlas, a law student at the nearby university in Berkeley, places her double Americano next to her [...]

Video Poetry (Twilight Edition)

THE WEAKERTHANS – CIVIL TWILIGHT

My Confusion Corner commuters are cursing the cold away As December tries to dissemble the length of their working day And they bite their mitts off to show me transfers, deposit change and I can’t stop finding your face in their faces, all rearranged and angry like you never [...]

Quote of the Day

“Usually in life, when we act, when we exist, we tend to have a very wretched and small notion of what we are doing. Sometimes, we try to be good boys and girls. We struggle, taking our journey stitch by stitch. We go to sleep at night, we get up the next day, and we [...]