Mid Day Musings

Ok here is one of my mid-day musings. I've actually stolen it from John Irving's book Cider House Rules (I think). I keep thinking about a moment in the story when the two main characters (teenaged boys) walk under a railway bridge and the train happens to cross the bridge at the same moment in time that they are under the bridge. The one boy's reaction is happy excitement at the chance of their path intersecting with the train's; whereas, the other boy's response is calm, claiming it's fate.

I definitely fall in the box of the first boy, and am continuously amazed how often we are biking for miles on a quiet road without any traffic, and then two cars pass us at the same time (one going each direction) so we could, play a game of "trying to ride 4 across", Greg and I on our bikes, and the two cars. Of course, usually we choose not to play the game and respectfully, change our speeds so we pass each other, safely, one at a time.