Pardes busy writing "road kill"

[pardes]

PARDES: I just took a side trip to your blog. My, you are a wonderful writer. I just finished reading "Diagnosis". To write at all well is great, but to do it daily like that is really amazing. I am envious of the creativity, and the ability to relay it so beautifully. Heck, I even have trouble wriitng this posting!

Thank! Now if I could just figure out how to write while biking. I always get the best ideas while biking when I relaxed.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Thank! Now if I could just figure out how to write while biking. I always get the best ideas while biking when I relaxed.

How about just recording your voice in stream-of-consciousness thoughts while riding, like unorganized verbal notes, to be worked into written stuff later? Sort of like how people leave a dream journal next to their bed, because if they try to write it down later they have forgotten.

Call me old fashioned (or just plain simple-minded), but I have a hard time reading most blogs- most have so many visual elements going on- frames, links, scattered graphics, bright colors, various navigation lists, archive lists....
As basically a 'single tasking' person, I always have a hard time getting into the mood of what's written in blogs because there are so many things at once competing for my attention visually. For me it's like driving around a traffic circle with lots of signs (one of my worst driving scenarios). God forbid if sound bites or music clips are thrown into the mix as well!
I can never play music in the background while I work either. I even have a difficult time concentrating on what i need to buy at the store if they have Muzak on. Gee, I guess I sound 'old'!

[lunacycles]

What I like about the View From Pardes is that to me it doesn't seem to be so much about cycling, per se, when she is writing about riding.... but about her observations of the world when a bicycle is a part of it. I have no idea if that makes sense, but there is something quietly humble and spiritual, and normal. You actually get the sense that she is connected not only to the bike but to everything it encounters. It is not about getting more fit or getting more gear, or becoming faster, or any of that stuff. It is really nice storytelling. It is what cycling has finally become for me, after all these years, and I have never been able to put that into words, but she has.

[Tuckervill]

Lisa, you can use your CTRL and + key (Command+ on my MacBook) to make the type larger, and then you will have scroll bars on the window. Align the scroll bar so you can only see the text, and you're set!

I do not like flashing things on screen when I'm trying to read. However, the crazyguyonabike travel journals give me the opposite problem. Often not enough pictures or detail in the journals. I understand why, but some of them really leave me wanting more.

Karen

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa, you can use your CTRL and + key (Command+ on my MacBook) to make the type larger, and then you will have scroll bars on the window. Align the scroll bar so you can only see the text, and you're set!

I do not like flashing things on screen when I'm trying to read. However, the crazyguyonabike travel journals give me the opposite problem. Often not enough pictures or detail in the journals. I understand why, but some of them really leave me wanting more.

Karen

Thanks Karen. The browser/scroll thing is not doing it for me- but I'm not going to fuss any more.
Hey do you have a link to crazy's blog? I couldn't find it in Google- I'd like to see an example of this 'minimalist' blog you're talking about!

Yes, I like the existential aspects of bike riding....riding as just part of our normal life and our personal identity....how we move around within our own life. I too am going through this evolution, though I started out partly in it already, especially with the inspiration my husband provides. He reaps the maximum rich harvest from even the humblest ride down to the corner to mail a letter.

Back to the original question though-
I have no idea what a 'tweet' or a 'twitter' is except concerning bird language, but if you are asking for favorites gravestone epitaphs, here's mine...
My mother and I used to joke about what inscriptions should be on people's gravestones. She and I had a lot of similar traits, but one big difference was in our energy levels. She seemed to make a career out of avoiding any kind of exertion or effort. She was fond of lying down and 'resting' even when she hadn't been doing a thing all day! So, I joked to her once that her epitaph would read:
"At last- no more Annoying Interruptions." She thought that was a real hoot, and we got a good laugh out of it!

[Tuckervill]

http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/

It's written by lots of different people. It's basically a portal for touring cyclists to document their travels. I'm sure when you see it, you'll remember you've been there before?

I love that epitaph!

Karen

[pardes]

It is really nice storytelling. It is what cycling has finally become for me, after all these years, and I have never been able to put that into words, but she has.

Thank you for those very kind words! I'm on a roll....I posted another blog entry today that's related to biking....again....tangentially and mixed in with everything else.