Here they sat at a social breakfast table–all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes–looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
Chapter 5: Breakfast – Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Coffee drinking in the morning is what makes getting up in the morning such a pleasure, makes life worth living. And coffee gets one moving, and you know: moving is good for you.
When I speak, my lips & tongue form the words that are on my mind. These ARE my thoughts, yet they are NOT my thoughts.
I’ll try to turn over a new leaf, a blank page, and start over.
Nothing unusual this morning – unlike last month when the shirtless urban wanderer, Kiltman, appeared here.
Or more recently when the bookstore featured a new cat.
meetup.com/Bay-Area-Big-Thumpers-Dual-Sport-Group
Made it there just in time to see everyone take off without me.
But, I’ve my own group: Electric Future
Note: The above movie runs fine in Chrome, a bit problematic in Safari, and for some reason in FireFox only the video shows up, without the audio/sound. On my iPad it does not run at all!
P.S. It’s a good thing I didn’t go. While riding along a dirt backroad, ignoring signs, the group had an irate landowner pull a gun on them – a situation that tied up the excursion for hours and got the police involved.
Life is so unfair. He wasn’t on the offense; his job was defense, not to catch the ball. But, he was playing the game. And what difference would possession make?
So the missed catch split his life, a mortal caesura so to speak, his life before and after the unexpected happening.
The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.
During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.
But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:
