Vacation

Hi there folks! Sorry I haven't blogged (note: this is my first and last apology for not blogging. I feel I have several legitimate excuses). First of all, my internet crashed. That usually impedes blogging. Or just about anything online. Then I went camping. Before these blessed events, I was working earning cash. So, in other words, I've been keeping busy.

I wanted to remark on the inappropriateness of a loose kickstand to mountain biking. You see, that kickstand is going to fall off as you ride down a rutty lane or hillside. I know because this happened to me today. Who's fault was that? Well, mine really, because I didn't tighten the bolts. Or consider the inappropriateness of driving a car through a barn (or a ditch, I've done both). Some things are just naturally inappropriate.

And some things become inappropriate due to circumstances. Gnawing your shirt is acceptable at age 3, but not at age 33. Ditto with sucking your thumb. But these are self-apparent inappropriatenesses, easily corrected. Less apparent ones are harder. Take, for instance, a cherished ideal that suddenly fades in the hard light of "reality." Or a dream that withers untimely due to unavoidable circumstances. These are hard to bear.

The circumstances do not invalidate the dream, they merely reform it.