Corrective Action

This fall, a local musician rode his bike down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, with his guitar and banjo, playing small shows on farms along the way.

I read his Facebook posts as he was on his trip. Tonight, he was at my local bike shop, the Angry Catfish, playing songs, reading poems, talking about his trip, reflecting on biking.

In one of his poems, he says: If there is a corrective action, it is to always ride a bike. I really liked that and wrote it down. In another poem, sort of an ode to cyclists, he said: We know the weather by being out in it.

While all this talk, on the heels of a vacation, made me wish I was just riding my bike for at least a week - if not a month - rather than doing whatever it is I do every day, it wasn't a sad night.

I loved the event, from walking to the local bike shop to being greeted by name by the staff, from having Dan introduce me to a guy he knows who started a biking magazine and was the interviewer of the musician to drinking the free local beer, from hanging out with our former roommate who biked to the shop to seeing local businesses recognized for their sponsorship of the ride and the event.

A great neighborhood in a great city. A great community.

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