Di(2)Y
July 17th…
It’s late in the evening.
Three to ten.
I finally got around to pulling a card today.
Grabbed the deck and began shuffling them as I paced around…
Becoming unconscious of the fact that I was actually even shuffling the cards anymore, mostly just navigating my mind.
I came back to and as I spread the cards in my hand to draw, I could see that a single card was upturned.
The Emperor.
Ten.
I’ve only ridden a bike once this week.
Over to the coffee shop to catch a bit of the tour with my daughter on her birthday.
The yellow fixed gear.
Fix Urself.
Anytime I ride that bike that is the song that comes to mind.
The fixed gear the bike of choice this week because the Aethos finds itself waiting for a new wheelset as some of the carbon in the front wheel decided to… part ways…
The Salsa…
Well the Salsa always needs love, but this time it will get the love it has deserved for so long.
Found myself deeply inspired by a friend’s 330 mile journey through east texas on his steel roadbike.
A feat that most people would question why one would even consider doing…
I found myself wondering why I hadn’t…
Found myself reliving the journey as almost a memory of my own as I read his write up of it all.
Fix yourself.
I patiently await the arrival of bike parts and tools.
Back to my ways.
Last night Delta asked me if I felt like myself again.
Or something adjacent to that.
I don’t remember exactly what she said but…
The … precision of the language doesn’t dictate the accuracy of the feeling.
And that statement probably stands for both her question and my answer to it.
I’m going to go drink a club soda and listen to someone debut their EP…
The same location at which my daughter and I watched the tour…