opens my perceptions. The dirt devil, dancing left and right and forward and back with its patter as it sweeps closer, seems to be enticing me to come dance with it. With my eyes closed, I feel that lively devil as it crosses over and around me and dusts my sweaty, sun-screened body with true grit. After it passes, I giggle of having been swept by the dancing devil.
We flow into and with the fragrances of the rose bushes along the property-line fence rail. The damp, earthy, pine-infused redolence of the Pacific Northwest seems to permeate into our blood. The thick salt air along the coast seems to cleanse and heal even our mental and emotional wounds. The sweet scents of honeysuckle lighten our heads. The dry southwest air with its subtle auras of rock and tumbleweed accentuate the earthen colors in the 360-degree views of vast, rugged, open, unpopulated, and glorious earth.
Easier Than Walking
A great benefit of bicycling is that with very little physical exertion, we can roll. Even if our bicycling is slow, we are making progress toward our destination. I can bicycle one hundred miles just about any day. I think it is much easier than running, hiking, or walking ten miles. Many of my friends have taken on the challenge of walking twenty miles a day with the 3-Day Walk benefiting the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. With walking, if I do not pick up that foot and press on, through blisters or foot, ankle, knee, or leg pains of the previous day’s endeavors, I will not make progress toward the current day’s goal. On my bike, I press that pedal a little and roll a lot.
Another benefit of bicycling compared to walking is that I am not pestered with bugs biting my skin and sucking my blood. There is
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