Light vs Dark

Hi Readers!

As I was tooling away on the Peloton trainer this morning (great 60 minute workout, by the way!), I had some thoughts about positivity vs negativity. I attributed positivity to LIGHT and negativity to DARK, as I think most people logically would. Then I spent some time thinking about what concepts fall under each of these somewhat binary categories. Here is what I came up with...

LIGHT: Love, kindness, compassion, tolerance, empathy, altruism, equity, justice, democracy, freedom, sharing, honesty, cooperation, teamwork, uplifting, peace, calm, contentment, positivity.

DARK: Fear, hate, grievance, vitriol, misery, intolerance, sexism, racism, autocracy, kleptocracy, oppression, greed, harm, toxicity, shame, blame, chaos, dishonesty, agitation, aggression, negativity.

It occurred to me that a lot of people seem to dwell in the DARK these days, especially if they spend a lot of their time on social media, and it sounds exhausting and miserable. It seems like the LIGHT is a much more fun and enjoyable place to be. It's certainly the place I find most hospitable to my mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.*

Thoughts? Leave a comment below.

Fin.

*NOTE: If you are a lover of the LIGHT too and are exhausted and disgusted by all the divisive and toxic fear, hate, grievance, and vitriol purveyed by social and mainstream media (SMSM), you are not alone and you may find the safe place you are looking for in the Church of Bike With Joe. Check it out HERE.

Time to Ride

Hi Readers!

I am giving it my best effort to post a new post here every day. The Algorithm LOVES new content, am I right?

That being said, I am planning a big, fun, awesome post for this coming Sunday 11/24/24, and because I am putting all my effort into that post, I don't have a great deal of good content for today's post. I'll share with you what I got thought...

Per usual, I will be seeing marriage and family therapy clients today. I'm also going to jump on the Peloton trainer here shortly for an INTENTIONAL 60 minute workout, dedicated to world peace and harmony.

I had a couple cute song lyrics pop into my head earlier: "I built a little spaceship in my backyard. If found the specs online and it wasn't too hard. Making things airtight was the trickiest part. Don't want to decompress and explode my heart."

Alright. With that weak sauce, I had best sign off.

Fin.

Biking

Hi Readers!

Despite global warming's silver linings, it is still late fall heading headlong into winter in Wisconsin. While climate change allowed me to comfortably rake leaves this morning in the middle of November, it's getting a little too brisk for fair weather bicyclists like myself to bike outdoors. So, with the exception of a rare record warm day to come (which is actually fairly likely), most of the bike riding to be done here over the next few months will be indoors - in my case, on the Peloton trainer.

If you have a Peloton, you can certainly connect with me in that community. My Peloton name is @ragbraijoe (tag = #poweredbyplants). I will likely continue to schedule Facebook events via the BIKE WITH JOE FB group. However, these will likely be events like "get coffee" or "play board games," rather than "bike outside somewhere." Can you dig it?

In other news, this blog was just nominated for a Wisconsin Area Music Industry award for Best Blog. How cool is that? Vote for this blog if you like it.

I supposed I should talk about music then. The GUPPY EFFECT semi-acoustic musical duo is up and running again. We are mostly focused on rehearsing and honing material right now, but hope to play a house concert of coffee shoppe gig here sometime soon.

Fin.