Riding is like life. Keep your balance, stop for a nice meal once in a while, stand up, sit down, lean in, keep your eyes up but be aware of what’s behind you and what might come from either side, check your blind spot, don’t carry too much baggage, and keep a decent tool kit around. And a helmet never hurt anybody…
Riding is also perfectly emblematic of the human condition: We ultimately are alone but find reference, meaning, support, and growth through traveling together.
I suppose if you make your entire life in, I don’t know, gardening, perhaps you might write the same kind of sentence and say that gardening has brought the greatest, most creative people into your life and that you married your spouse and met your…
