Evanston: not forgetting
Evanston: not forgetting
A fine sunny afternoon. Windows open. A light breeze stirring tree tops. And I’m just back from my first bicycle ride along the lake front in almost three years. It’s true: you don’t forget how.
The summer of 2008 I was sailing west from Darwin to South Africa, with stops in Bali and Cocos, and last year from Panama to New Zealand, with a break to return to spend time with Carol who was then working in Boston.
This is the first warm day this week, and there were many other people out jogging, walking dogs, even sunning themselves on the beach, something I stopped doing when I started sailing, which is now more than forty years ago.
During the fifth circumnavigation, with no place to walk while aboard, I was aware of muscle loss in my legs. This time, coming from time aboard on the mooring, where I was often ashore climbing hills, my legs are fine, but bicycle riding does use some thigh muscles that walking does not.
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Old people are expected to live in the past and repeat themselves. For that matter most people repeat themselves. None of us have many original ideas, and many of us have none.
While my memory is not as good as once it was, I strive not to live in the past, which I have already lived and written, and I am often, if not always, aware of when I repeat myself. This site is replete with “as I have written elsewhere” to the point that I may make this an official disclaimer and refrain from such references in the future.
All of this is in explanation of why I am running the above photograph again.
Since posting it a couple of weeks ago, I have been using it as my desktop background. I just bought a new computer, and when I migrated the image, it appeared almost completely black on the new screen, and I realized that it might have looked that way to others. So I went back into Aperture and used the dodge brush to lighten the feather shaped cloud. Maybe now you can see it. If not indulge me and change your display angle a bit forward or back.
I promise not to run this photo again.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010