I don’t keep much stuff around. -I value my portability.
-Ani D
i’ve just been working on my bike for the last couple of hours. i’m glad to say that the back wheel is officially upgraded to a 27″ by 1 1/4, and i’m well on my way towards making it a true ninja roadbike. so far i’ve stripped off of this bike the back gears, one front gear, both derailers, the back brake and attendant handset, most of the painted logos, the quick release mechanisms, the front and back reflectors, and just about everything i can. it’s pretty close to being as streamlined as a functional bike can get.
i’m tuning it up and pruning it down because it’s one of the only things that i’m taking to provincetown for the summer. a duffle bag, my sound system, and the bike are plenty of objects to hold me over for three months.
moving again means streamlining my material life again. it’s a process i relish, because it reminds me that you come in empty handed and you leave the same way. i want to make my material life like a good poem – everything meaningful, and nothing unecessary.
i’ve always been a bit of a monk.
May 19, 2006 at 7:37 am
All endeavors should be: “everything meaningful, and nothing necessary”
June 27, 2006 at 3:27 am
December 18, 2006 at 11:36 pm
[...] and so on. strong words. in short, things will always fail you at the most important level, and woe to them that they fail. as i noted in one of my first posts, portability, my father put it well: by the grace of god, our attachments fail us. be attached to the immediacy of god. [...]