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FINAL SOLILOQUY OF THE INTERIOR PARAMOUR

Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.

This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect ourselves, Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:

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2010 Ride #35

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Must have gotten the timing of my asthma inhaler blasts right today … legs felt good; lungs felt good … only had to stop a couple of times to get my heart rate back down, but wasn’t gasping for breath during those brief respites, [...]

Think bikes are spendy? Try fly fishing!

Somehow, I got on the mailing list for the Madison River Fishing Company; not really sure how … it doesn’t really matter. Their focus is the serious fly fisherman.

When I was but a lad, living in Tennessee and Minnesota, I used to love to go fishing; granted, all I ever did was bait and [...]

Sunday mornings

I’ve always enjoyed Sunday mornings … from going to Sunday School and then services at First Baptist Church of Chattanooga, Tennessee with my great-grandmother when my age was still in the single-digits, to my current more adult-oriented fare (no, not porn) of double cappuccino, CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, and the New York Times.

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Home

The old cliché is that “home is where the heart is”, and if that’s true, then home is one of three places … as always, home will be Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I spent my formative years, and where much of the extended family that I really consider to be FAMILY reside.

Home will always be [...]

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, [...]

Speeches

This is the John McCain that I once respected, and for whom in years past, I would have considered voting … well , except for the Sarah Palin comments in the middle of the speech. If this had been the John McCain that had been campaigning for the past several months, I feel the election [...]

More evidence that panic feeds itself

Now, this particular story is not about the stock market, but it’s yet another example of how irrational fears and rumor-mongering can feed a situation, making it worse, and potentially forcing a situation where rumor becomes reality.

Nashville pumps dry after panic about rumor of no gas – CNN.com

(CNN) — Call it a self-fulfilling [...]

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 [...]