Fresh on the heels of my previous “Caption this” post, here is another; Images that just beg for the creativity of you, yes YOU, to add description to-
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Yaknow this song. Pick up your instrument!
Startin easy, noodling the notes & getting in tune with heart & breathing… Finding well practiced frets in your muscles & joints.
Carbon fiber shiny aluminum glinting across tuned strings of men-
beginning to thrumm out through stanzas of road, measures of climbs, bass clef of earth, treble clef of sun.
Packa hungry cyclists finding its inner band, it’s cohesion, swing band, jazz band, Rock! Symphony of this right now.
Big gears turning windsound earfuls of noise.
Best instrument? The human heart drum drum drum endless big mallet Taiko grim faced drummer your life in that thunking speaking hollow bell ker-pow-pow-boom!
Music hiss tires and the speed builds, shadows & legs moving sync piano run of the peloton, fingers on gearshift levers / flute keys french horn Allez! Allez! Allez!.
Tires in the pack clustered arpeggios of movement. Echelons of notes, drive that gear & don’t drop the tempo!
Sheet music of asphalt, relentless rippled grey pages.
Graceful arcs of carbon, double-note outlines of muscle, chain and cable in tune, geartooth songtooth muscledrum.
Roar of blood barely contained by arteries saxophone wide open.
All lined out in hardsong, world dissolves to that one tire waving in tunnel vision of crescendo,
15 cog, 14, clack, 13! Whirr, 12 wirrr— 11??? what are you made of? Can you really play?
The one trumpet, vibrato velocity, as the music moves & you move, chasing & leading.
Willpower– there is the microphone and so pull through. So sing! Sing! ya bike rider with every note in your body! sing! roadsong is the bestsong,
Sing! that one long uptempo vowel of cyclesong…
Thanks Glen-Josh-Samuel-Brett-Brent-Rick for playing in the band/ride today. It was awesome.
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Some images just beg for words to be added to them, to explain what “is really is going on”: The first picture has to do with speedskating, the rest are just odd, I will leave suggestive captions up to your collected good minds:
Please leave your creative caption in the comments-
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Picture #3
and you can see Caption This #1 here
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A picture I took with a camera that was handed to me; at a party celebrating a friends 10th wedding anniversary.
Fresh pressed tablecloth, the cluster of candles & flow of light. Wine as crisp and red and flavorful as the picture suggests.
Intersections; angles of seams pressed in cloth.
Reach in. Have a drink. Stay.
The two women off camera right, one of them was the owner of that glass of wine (nothing here is staged).
They were in their late 30’s / early 40’s. Educated, probably professionals of some type, or married to professionals.
Moms for sure. But able to still dress up & be mistaken for younger, unless you listen to their voices.
You can hear maturity as surely as you can feel an elevator shoot you helplessly upwards through a high-rise. 21st floor, 30th floor, 40th floor… Ding…. welcome to right now.
But yes, back to the wine.
When I was handed the camera, I felt awake again in a strange way. I kept firing off pictures in hopelessly low light conditions.
The pictures/pixels were unimportant, but looking at things somehow mattered again. Listening mattered. The conversation & the crowd on the dance floor- mattered.
I’ve never written a goodbye post here, even as other responsibilities have crushed/overwhelmed the time I used to spend blogging.
Overwhelmed by tiredness, overwhelmed by work/dad/life- sleep was all that mattered. But RZ has been sleeping though the night for the past month.
and I think I might be waking up again.
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