Biking-related Parries
July 2009
At Modi’in Mall
There’s nothing else around here except empty desolate pretty hills. The Israel Trail passes by a bit to the west. It’s a hot July Wednesday morning. Things are reasonably busy. The shops are mostly franchises, almost all homegrown — Super-Pharm, Aroma, Tzomet Sfarim, Cup O’ Joe’s, LaMetayel, Mega, Fox, Castro, H&O.
August 2007
A Ride to Gatwick Airport
Gatwick is my airport now, largely unchanged since 1986, so it now looks tawdry. Airports. They’re so charged, so symbolic, and so empty once you’re at one; I dream of them often.
May 2007
Daily Yin
For my first test of the day as day, I open the back door and step outside to the little patio to see the sky and feel the air. I realize not everybody does this, so if people tell me I’m a miserable bastard then perhaps this little habit will correct their impression.
April 2007
The Meaning Addiction
I’m reading Shardik by Richard Adams, famous for Watership Down. I chose it because it’s about religion, and Adams demonstrated such insight there with the rabbits’ religion — “Oh Frith on the hill, he made it all for us!” — that he’s clearly a contributor to our understanding of ourselves and our meaning addiction.
Biking-related Photos
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And on the Trail
Wed 18 Apr ’12
Walking in America, or rather the lack thereof. A 4-part series in Slate, by Tom Vanderbilt (whom I met 1996). What he doesn’t correlate national walking statistics to, and it seems to me the obvious thing, is the number of anti-depressants prescribed.
Sun 23 Oct ’11
Beautiful piece by Bruce Weber of The New York Times on his second bike ride across America.
Thu 13 Oct ’11
Forced exercise is better for the brain than voluntary, and can help with Parkinson’s.
Sun 24 Jul ’11
Vivid, loving portrait of the beach at Brighton that gets in some of my own favorites, like Jack and Linda’s Smokehouse.