I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. – John Burroughs
Category: mental health
Bike Writer # 46 – Take In A Little Steam
Wherever you are, be there totally. – Eckhart Tolle
Bike Writer # 45 – It’s Mind Over What Matters
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha
Bike Writer # 44 – The Paddler
With every stroke, with every ounce of me, I move forward. Pulling myself through the wake of life. Today, I cross a pond. Tomorrow…I challenge the ocean. – Ash
Bike Writer # 43 – It’s Not About Always Being the Best, It’s About Always Being You!
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry van Dyke
Far From Home
I walk this earth an alien
no place here for a castaway
surrounded all the time
still alone
My blood, it’s not like yours
it repels
it taints
it makes things you love disappear
Journal Entry # 183 – You’re Stronger Than You Think
Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders. – Augustine of Hippo
Bike Writer # 41 – For a Spell, For a Flower
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journal Entry # 182 – Embrace the Space
Explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. – Edward Abbey
Bike Writer # 40 – Paint A Beautiful Life For Yourself!
I went for a bike ride today. A small one, but it was enough to make me realized something. That moments like this are really, just little paint strokes on a portrait of my life. So, the more strokes I take, the more beautiful I make the big picture become. – Ash
