Roger Cycling the Loveland Trail
Originally uploaded by paynehollow.
Friday is Louisville's Bike to Work Day. The weather here in Kentucky is crisp and cool and practically begs you to leave your car at home (or maybe even give it to a worthy cause) and engage the Green World outside our doors.
I leave you with Edward Abbey's words:
It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish [AND BIKE - dan] and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for awhile and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space.
Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: You will outlive the bastards.
"Breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air," or at least as much of it as you're likely to find in your community.
5 comments:
I love Edward Abbey. I still keep a copy of Desert Solitaire close at hand for inspiration.
Whe I lived in New Mexico I read everything of his I could get my hands on. I particularly remember The Brave Cowboy, the ending of which pissed me off, and Fire on the Mountain.
Desert Solitaire is the Walden of the West!
Go Dan Go!!!
Or is Walden the Desert Solitaire of the Northeast?
Neither. Both are wannabe Payne Hollow Journals!
Thanks for writing, y'all. And it was a lovely ride in to work today, thank you very much (as it is most days here in Louisville).
Dan, have you ever heard of Shawnee Baptist Church? I was there several years ago during their annual youth conference with a group of teens.
I used to live not too far from Shawnee Baptist. Never visited there, though.
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