Beep Beep Vroom Vroom

GOA WHEELS

I failed to reach the goal of carrying a motorcycle license in the year 2012, but I did rent a scooter for two days in Goa. Buzzing around exploring the coastal beaches, I memorized the plate number- 7582- so I could identify my scooter in crowded parking lots. Tim, a fellow traveler from Great Britain, gave excellent driving advice, which I followed meticulously. Slowing down to a crawl on gravel and sand and keeping both hands on the brakes kept me safe in a beeping mass of motion. An hour after climbing on to the scooter, the rules of the road were becoming clearer, but I still swallowed hard while learning to trust other drivers who zipped by my un-helmeted head brushing my arms with their cool tailwind.

2013 is my year for a dirt bike complete with the American license.

Kids tuk-tuking it to school in Madurai.

What a relaxing day! I truly needed it. What's wrong with being alone? After a week of intense socializing, I enjoyed ME-time. Best to do certain things solo like having a John Prine YouTube music binge and reading world news while Skyping faraway friends.

The Librairie Avant-Garde Bookstore in Nanjing captivated my eye this afternoon with a postcard of Jimmy Dean and a pig in addition to the following words on the cover of a journal.

LOVE IN MY DREAMS
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
There is no secure direction;
Without direction, there is no life.



Father forgive us for what we must do
You forgive us we'll forgive you
We'll forgive each other till we both turn blue
Then we'll whistle and go fishing in heaven.

- John Prine, Bruised Orange

feel like stepping out

Stepping Out by Margaret Shore

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Destination Unknown

The Human Condition

How can he explain to this impatient young man what it has taken him forty-five years to learn- that loss is an essential part of the human condition. That even as we are moving on down that long lonesome road, destination unknown, there is always something we are leaving behind. He has been trying all morning to compose a song about it.

Strawberry Fields, Marina Lewycka

write a book about it

structure a poem about it