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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #103 - Chasing the Sun and Moon
06.22.11
One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their
relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain
and
the encounters they find there.
It's a bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).
See how we move.
On the third year of this bike ride, you might expect:
- more inconvenient passageways
- more full moon picnics
- perhaps more "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- certainly more amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- dance parties
- karaoke
- imaginary histories
- scavenging for fun and sustenance
- more geocaching
- more oblique strategies
- more Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
Furthermore:
- A medium pace (maybe not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- We're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light.
- 25-ish miles; one significant hill.
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
Chasing the Sun and Moon
This being the day after the summer solstice, you are probably exhausted from jumping over bonfires,
blowing on conch shells, "seeking the fern flower" and such. We understand. Those traditions of ritual
purification and renewal can really take it out of you. But the heavenly bodies continue on their paths,
and if it seemed that time stood still for a moment while the sun was perched at its zenith, then it is
now surely once again marching forward.
This week, we will continue chasing the sun and the moon and finding ways (both new and old) to mark
the time.
There is a hill obviously, because how else are we supposed to follow the heavenly bodies? 25 miles, or
thereabouts.
Talk, talk, talk...
(and join the mailing list!)
The hacienda must be built.
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