Ambition is the booby prize...
Maintaining
Tag: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Flashback: One year ago today
This is what I posted last April 30th. Reading it now, knowing what would follow, gave me chills...
Time for patience
Some folks thrive on drama. Some can't live without it and still others manufacture it. We're definitely not those people. Life is enough.
This is Tuesday
Every day I search for the things that can be done, the sweet spot, as Robert Pirsig wrote, "between restlessness and exhaustion"...
Back, at Home
Everything today went according to plan...
So I’ve noticed
Rambling through the Northern Plains the last few weeks I've noticed that the Fall harvest is well underway...
Paused
With little to do yesterday other than stand watch over our recuperating pup, I got to thinking about how we’ve spent our time and energy since we rolled out of Arkansas nine weeks ago today...
Journey’s eve
It’s Day 403 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve. Deb and I are fine. Excited, for reasons that should be obvious if you’ve been following along...
Day 329: Jammin’
This is Day 329 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve. Deb and I are okie-dokie. And we’re gettin’ more snow. By the time it’s all over, this round could bring the most we’ve seen...
Flashback: ‘Between restlessness and exhaustion’ (1974)
(During the motorcycle odyssey described by Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he brought along a copy of Thoreau's Walden, a book I've described as "my old testament." It shouldn't be surprising...