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Mill Street Free Library
There are two free mini-libraries on my route to-from work. Today I stopped for the first time to hit one up. This one on Mill Street – hence ‘The Mill Street Free Library’ – only went up a week or two ago. It’s very well constructed, and I noticed as I opened it up and…
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Written in the Forest
Posted in: Bikes12km through the cold, crispy woods this morning with @spoke_n_words and hundreds of words of thanks given to the gods of the trees and mist shrouded wisdom. The answers are indeed out there, you have to go find them. If you’re unsure where to go, just ask Tuck the a-numer-one trail dog, he knows the way by…
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Coffeeneuring 2019 Control #2
Coffeeneuring 2019 Control # 2: Headed out to one of my favorite #coffeeoutside spots and set up a ‘coffee shop without walls’ for Control #2. Fixed myself up a nice coffee black. Gas station cream cheese and chocolate chip muffin was only a 6 out of 10 though. Did manage to drop a bunch of existential angst on…
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Coffeeneuring 2019 Control #1
Posted in: BikesCoffeeneuring 2019 Control #1 – Rode out with my Number One Wingman @spoke_n_words in ridiculous conditions. Raining, like, a lot. More than we had planned when ride planning last evening. We called an audible and changed plans at the start for a different route to coffee at @chesspiececafe We got to our turn around point soaked to the bone. No amount…
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My Personal Action
Posted in: BikesWhen I initially conceived of this club I brainstormed all kinds of ideas to get people engaged and spread the word. One was to send emails to a bunch of folks asking them to submit a few words on how riding a bike has been a corrective action for them. I was going to in-turn,…
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Be Less Urgent
I couldn’t ride to to work today because, family stuff. I was struck by just how much of a hurry everyone else driving seemed to be in to get to their destination, especially given it was probably a job they complained incessantly about. I felt no such urgency. Instead I mentally swiped left through these…