I woke up to a windy morning and got back on the bike thinking about presence — not as an idea, but as something I could actually turn on. Like a switch. Or at least a dimmer that doesn’t immediately break when you touch it.
By the river, across from Algonac on the Canadian side, I found a stretch of rocks along the shore. I started jumping from one to the next, focusing only on the rock I was landing on — just that one, nothing else. It worked… in small increments.
Back on the bike, I caught myself singing Say You Love Me by Simply Red into the open air.. Being one of those grains of sand, I get blown all around the world.
That evening I camped next to a basketball court. Before settling in, I shot 20 free throws for humanity — not to make them, just to take them. Humanity went 10 for 20.
I pulled a few moments from that ride into this episode.
by pablousunoff