Kalebs parting letter
The following is a parting gift to my good hobo bicyclist brother Kaleb before he sets out on a 9 month pedal across Asia in search of, well, mainly food and shelter, and alot of confused looks from locals. Mays his days be filled with pedaling pavement and prosperity, and maybe a bit of that other p-word men seem to love so much.
Parting words....been reading Rumi slowly these days just for kicks since im just kicking it with my 86 year young grandmother who gets drunk off a glass of wine and tries to turn on the television with the telephone...ah to be old and wrinkled, someday someday,
but now we embrace youth! (remind me i said to remind me to say i said to say that when i am wrinkled, remind me)...
"dont be a searcher wrapped in the importance of his own quest"
On your journey, just represent humanity in the best way possible,
lend a hand whenever you can,
expect only the unexpected,
and heed the call of each days blessing,
even if you are bug bitten and have the shits those are the times to feel the blessing even more...
bike touring is lucrative for the ego as you return home to constant showers of oooos and ahhhhhs and "i wish i could do thats"...
thats not the point...
forget the destination, you know you will get there but once you arrive the next journey has already begun so do we ever really arrive anwhere?!
Think about that...
just be now.
How does one person maintain sanity sitting in the same room their entire life?
Simple, they just look at that room each morning for the first time...
that sounds insane but who is really sane anyfucking way?
"when someone is counting out
gold for you, dont look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at the giver."
Look at the giver
Look at the giver.
Look at the giver.
Look at the giver.
That one is self explanatory, but know that the giver is all around you and you are the giver too!
Dont forget to smile at everything and laugh even at times when you want to curse the evil bastards that burned you or the chick you thought was a chick but now her huge boner is rubbing against yours...
laughter is the best medicine,
if i see you crying or complaining im gonna come slap the shit outta you and make you piss your pants with laughter.
I know you get the point,
but you may think you are going on a grand bicycle journey in a faraway land.
That is not true.
You are just sharing life on a planet as a human with other humans looking for a good time the same as you,
no different,
no differences...except you will be in spandex, which will make people piss themselves with laughter so that puts you on the right track already.
Im sorry for all the meat i couldnt share with you last summer, and all the meat you missed out on as a result of my selfishness...as if we could afford it anyway,
but now i put fang to flesh on the daily...
life is too short to not fully integrate into humanity,
like a true mothafucking chameleon.
The fringe is nice for a glimpse to see whats out there (and far ouuuuut have we gone!)
but those gathered in the middle are keeping the core nice and warm and I like a good snuggle.
Snuggle nuggle,
C
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