Re: Bike-riding as a spiritual experience


"Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "catzz66" <dingdong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>>
>> It is my personal thing, but I stop reading an article when see that
>> word. I am on Mozilla, so it is not otherwise blocked, though.
>
> I understand your feeling, which is the risk of having it in the title or
> the body of the work. At the same time, I don't feel like "f*&%ing" or
> something is any better, really, and the whole essay loses its meaning
> with a different word in there.

Generally I agree with catzz66, but I see where you're coming from, Claire.
I was motivated to go to your meditation site and read and admire them, but
as a bit of a stranger, as I don't commune with nature well, or even try to.
(maybe I need to delve more into the life of St. Francis of Assisi, who
found it fully consistent with the Catholic orthodoxy). While bicycling is
literally part of my self-definition, and a great opportunity for
meditation, I don't see it as a mystical experience as such. So much the
worse for me.

Anyway, God willing, I will be making my 400th bike ride to Holy Hill on New
Year's day. That's a shrine/monastery/retreat house/ outdoor stations etc
atop the highest point in SE WI - albeit a scant 750 feet higher than Lake
Michigan, and a main source of spiritual fulfillment on bike rides. On my
long rides........well, I won't get into it.

Anyway, thanks for your insights. And I also welcomed your link to Chuck
Anderson's meditations on his travel in Austria.


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