Morning

[beige_alert]

Clear sky this morning, the sun just peeking over the horizon when I set out for work, the moon high overhead. The trees are getting into the fall thing, yellow and red leaves lit by the morning sun. A nice morning to be out on the bicycle.

I drove my car to work yesterday, which I haven't been doing often, and it's a strange way to travel. For one thing, of course, the giant steel box seems just a bit excessive for me, my sandwich, and my tiny laptop computer. Around here, my car is one of the smaller ones. And it just feels so dangerous. You could hit somebody driving one of those giant steel boxes! Everyone is going so fast, and following so close, and changing lanes so carelessly. Crazy people everywhere! Sometimes you feel, as a cyclist, that many of the people in cars seem to hate cyclists. Then you get in your car and realize that, actually, they also hate other people in cars. It's really a free-floating anger at the entire world.

Nice to be back on the bicycle.

Comments

[rose1thorn.livejournal.com]

Now you know why I hate driving with a fiery passion and didn't get my license until I was 34 years old.

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

I've understood that for a long time. But the feeling is getting stronger.