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I have always had a bicycle
I have not always been a bicyclist.
I have always loved bicycling
I have not always been in to bicycling.
I have always been on a bicycle
I have not always been about a bicycle.

When I reflect I see
that bicycles
were always there.
When I lived in NorCal
the bicycle bug really began to bite,
but I had a bad back
so I headed to Berkeley and bought
Lil'C.
We rode a bit together,
sometimes in Marin,
sometimes to The City,
but we never took each other
super seriously.
H and I rode our tandem
back then,
and it was a blast.

But it was not until the move
to Minnesota
that I knew I would need
salvation.
Leaving my hyggelig behind
sent me into a tailspin
it took two years to get out of.
And when I had been through the worst
of it, began reaching to pull myself up,
I had the time to find myself.
It is in these darkest times
we strengthen who we are
learn to appreciate each day
and strive to make a better tomorrow.
If I had not fallen from my tippity Cali Top,
and reached my Minnesota bottom,
would biking still have been there for me?
Yes,
but to what degree?

In the last two years I have ridden
alone
nearly 2500 miles.
I have had a lot of time to think
in my lycra best.
My head is almost where I want it to be,
I have found my zen,
and life has become mine again...