Nautical November
i’m writing this to the percussive sound of raindrops on metal and glass and with images of flooded streets, subways, sites of construction (NYC) and washed out fields, foundations, and farms (haiti) in my head. it feels like we’re all gonna have to learn to sail our bicycles through the rising seawaters… a few years ago i helped organize a bike ride around the future shoreline of the City, based on other similar rides that preceded it, with the focus […]
Sand Between the Toes
Sand Between the Toes – 18 February 2005 This piece was written shortly after arriving to do tsunami relief work in Thailand, intending to stay for a week as part of several month trip around Asia. This began what ultimately became an almost two-year commitment to this stretch of Southern Thailand coastline. I am quite aware that in any other time, in any other place – wait – in this place even, such a phrase as “sand between the toes” […]
Oh, October…
oh, october… coming on the heels of the great yearly speed up that is september, a month when everyone either (a) goes back to school, (b) settles back into work, or (c) decides to throw every event imaginable. me included on (c). it was an epic last week of september throwing the big 8-day birthday party for 20 years of critical mass in sf. bike art, bike rides (crazy bikes and crazy bicyclists), interviews in print and on the radio […]