food for thought on a hot humid windy ride

[marni]

It has become apparent that I am either have to get up earlier (boo!) , continually push myself to ride faster than a 14 mph average , learn to accept a shorter training ride or else I am going to end up with fried brains. Today is day three of "feels like" triple digit temps around here.(Last summer the streak went for 72 days in a row.) At least there was a bit of cloud cover which hung around for the first hour or so but by the time I got off the road at 11:00 it was full sun, 95 degrees drippy humid,and no breeze. Sigh..

There was an interesting juxtaposition of radio commentary and pithy sign as I pulled into the parking lot at the hs where my friend Len and I start from. I had been listening to a commentary on the latest Kraft salad dressing ad, the one featuring the toothsome guy who always manages to lose his shirt (are those ABs real?) and is always going on about "How zesty do you want it? How hot do you like it ?" in a deep sexy voice and the fact the A Million Moms has issued a statement with sentiments" like no longer will Christians be able to buy Kraft dressing" and "We urge all good Christians to boycott Craft dressing products." The pithy sign informed me that"Dear Congress, 95% of Christians believe in God."

So I spent a lot of time on the ride contemplating whether this meant God in its broadest sense, male moral majority God, God as a universal source of life or power. Did they mean only male patriarchical God or could it be any God, were female gods or goddesses excluded and what about multiple aspected gods? Then I went on to contemplate the rigidity and exclusiveness of the attitude ( my god is the real one, yours is the false,) and in the day to day living of putting one foot in front of the other, why exactly should it matter?

I tell you-- fried brains.