March 22, 2011
In the last couple of days, many colleagues, and some I might not have expected, have been generous in their contributions to my PMC ride, putting me now over the 33% mark, which is heartening for so many reasons. It really does make me feel like I am not doing this all by myself; of course really nothing challenging I have undertaken has been accomplished all by myself, and this is something I need to remember even when the days are dark, before the wheel turns past the spring equinox. So, I am once again reminded to be grateful not only for this, but for many things. Today, I got myself to the Y to clamp myself into the Lifecycle, put on the headphones again, listening to the Pillars of the Earth, and just put some miles on my body. 7 only, due to a time restriction, but like many practices, I am hoping the discipline and persistence of it will have an effect in the long run. The photo here is of bikes in Japan, taken while I was there a few years ago. I think about what is going on in Japan daily, and I try to weigh doing something like the PMC against that tragedy and can’t balance anything out. Maybe that’s because there is no way to make sense of any tragedy; it’s an attempt to apply the left brain to a situation that has dimensions beyond three. And like all things real, what the people of Japan are coping with, once examined and once one put into some sort of construct the organizing mind wants to impose, morphs and shifts and changes into something altogether different. Everything changes, that’s the only thing for sure.

In the last couple of days, many colleagues, and some I might not have expected, have been generous in their contributions to my PMC ride, putting me now over the 33% mark, which is heartening for so many reasons. It really does make me feel like I am not doing this all by myself; of course really nothing challenging I have undertaken has been accomplished all by myself, and this is something I need to remember even when the days are dark, before the wheel turns past the spring equinox. So, I am once again reminded to be grateful not only for this, but for many things.

Today, I got myself to the Y to clamp myself into the Lifecycle, put on the headphones again, listening to the Pillars of the Earth, and just put some miles on my body. 7 only, due to a time restriction, but like many practices, I am hoping the discipline and persistence of it will have an effect in the long run.

The photo here is of bikes in Japan, taken while I was there a few years ago. I think about what is going on in Japan daily, and I try to weigh doing something like the PMC against that tragedy and can’t balance anything out. Maybe that’s because there is no way to make sense of any tragedy; it’s an attempt to apply the left brain to a situation that has dimensions beyond three. And like all things real, what the people of Japan are coping with, once examined and once one put into some sort of construct the organizing mind wants to impose, morphs and shifts and changes into something altogether different. Everything changes, that’s the only thing for sure.

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