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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #128: Shrines
12.14.11
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.
- 30-ish miles, relatively flat.
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
Shrines
They are so versatile.
They may be mysterious and personal, of meaning only to those who build them.
They may be places to gather and express a common devotion.
They may be visible reminders of events long past.
They may be a way to memorialize someone who no longer walks (or rides) among us.
They may establish a balance to the world by assigning a place in which the spirits and gods are connected to us and we to them.
They may provide a way to turn the ethereal and invisible into something concrete (or something plaster, or something paint, or something markers-on-cardboard).
Or they may just be an excuse to wear funny hats and drive little cars around. One must never underestimate the appeal of funny hats and little cars.
Ah, shrines, is there anything they can't do?
Talk, talk, talk...
(and join the mailing list!)
The hacienda must be built.
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