Comments on: Sadness http://clevercycles.com/2005/11/16/sadness/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:54:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cleverchimp blog » Blog Archive » Seeing slow http://clevercycles.com/2005/11/16/sadness/comment-page-1/#comment-17477 Cleverchimp blog » Blog Archive » Seeing slow Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:50:58 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=60#comment-17477 [...] I relish running errands in town on a bike, usually the Brompton if no passengers are involved. The other day I had to deliver a hundred machined parts to an anodizing shop a few miles away, in a bit of Southeast I hadn’t yet explored. It was cold and bright. When I pulled into the parking lot, necks craned from inside and a shop guy walking in from his truck gave me a grin that said “40-year-old virgin?” Maybe it was the rainlegs. I unloaded the parts and continued, turning down a few blind alleys just to see what was there. Portland has an amazingly diverse industrial infrastructure compared to the bigger, service-economy cities I’ve lived in. I wheeled the bike through the weeds of an embankment at the end of one alley and onto the road I’d return by. But I went the other way deliberately to see more. I rode into an open rolling field with some community garden plots on it, mostly mulched up for the winter now. I kneeled to pick maybe a dozen different kinds of mushrooms coming up in the glistening grass, my breath steaming. I thought about Dan my friend who died last autumn. Beyond the field were woods. I entered and descended to a clear deep creek running fast, with the last of the yellow and red leaves floating in eddies. Up the canyon I emerged on the campus of Reed College, in a complex of dormitories. I thought of my own school days and wondered how they might have been here instead of in Santa Fe. [...] [...] I relish running errands in town on a bike, usually the Brompton if no passengers are involved. The other day I had to deliver a hundred machined parts to an anodizing shop a few miles away, in a bit of Southeast I hadn’t yet explored. It was cold and bright. When I pulled into the parking lot, necks craned from inside and a shop guy walking in from his truck gave me a grin that said “40-year-old virgin?” Maybe it was the rainlegs. I unloaded the parts and continued, turning down a few blind alleys just to see what was there. Portland has an amazingly diverse industrial infrastructure compared to the bigger, service-economy cities I’ve lived in. I wheeled the bike through the weeds of an embankment at the end of one alley and onto the road I’d return by. But I went the other way deliberately to see more. I rode into an open rolling field with some community garden plots on it, mostly mulched up for the winter now. I kneeled to pick maybe a dozen different kinds of mushrooms coming up in the glistening grass, my breath steaming. I thought about Dan my friend who died last autumn. Beyond the field were woods. I entered and descended to a clear deep creek running fast, with the last of the yellow and red leaves floating in eddies. Up the canyon I emerged on the campus of Reed College, in a complex of dormitories. I thought of my own school days and wondered how they might have been here instead of in Santa Fe. [...]

]]> By: vj http://clevercycles.com/2005/11/16/sadness/comment-page-1/#comment-346 vj Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:30:04 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=60#comment-346 Todd - I am so sorry. Todd -
I am so sorry.

]]> By: Scott http://clevercycles.com/2005/11/16/sadness/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Scott Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:09:30 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=60#comment-345 Todd- Sorry to hear about this. Death, dying, loss... all of it, rough times for sure. Sitting next to someone you love when you know it's the last time for such things, what can one say? It's heartbreaking in its finality. May you find Joy in your memories. Best- -Me Todd-

Sorry to hear about this. Death, dying, loss… all of it, rough times for sure.

Sitting next to someone you love when you know it’s the last time for such things, what can one say? It’s heartbreaking in its finality.

May you find Joy in your memories.

Best-

-Me

]]> By: Bob O'Hara http://clevercycles.com/2005/11/16/sadness/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Bob O'Hara Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:14:48 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=60#comment-343 On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd; So live, that sinking to thy life's last sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. On parent knees, a naked new-born child,
Weeping thou sat’st, while all around thee smil’d;
So live, that sinking to thy life’s last sleep,
Calm thou may’st smile, while all around thee weep.

]]> By: Jim http://clevercycles.com/2005/11/16/sadness/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Jim Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:41:42 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=60#comment-341 May we all leave sad people when we go. May we all leave sad people when we go.

]]> By: Bill Manewal http://clevercycles.com/2005/11/16/sadness/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Bill Manewal Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:39:38 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=60#comment-340 I'm sorry, Todd. I'm sad for you and for his wife and daughter. Maybe it's worth knowing that a definition for sadness I've embraced in the last year says that sadness is my experience of a hurt that is healing. May you and his family heal as fully as possible and in your own good time. Thank you for being such a fine friend to him. And for your caring heart. I’m sorry, Todd.

I’m sad for you and for his wife and daughter.

Maybe it’s worth knowing that a definition for sadness I’ve embraced in the last year says that sadness is my experience of a hurt that is healing.

May you and his family heal as fully as possible and in your own good time.

Thank you for being such a fine friend to him. And for your caring heart.

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