By Ed Chasteen
This is the title of my new book due to be published soon. Here is an excerpt from page 46 in a part of the book called My Friend Martin.
I must have the bicycle. I must be hours on it, working my muscles, my mind, my sweat glands. That bicycle to me is like a dialysis machine to a kidney patient. I cannot live without it. But the bike by itself is not enough. I also need the supportive interacting of the people. All kinds of people. Everywhere. The bicycle or the interaction alone is half a loaf, insufficient to my appetite, leaving me wanting. And dying.
I cannot resign myself to a life of mediocrity. I am a pilgrim who cannot find a lasting city. I am a wanderer from another place. A bicycle I need to bring me quietly into the lives of people down the ever-beckoning road. Quickly I must make a place for myself in their lives. When our souls touch and we embrace, when we recognize our mutual love and need of one another, I must be gone.
Others await. And the pain of parting is almost more than I can bear. Knowing, though, that had we not parted, I would not now know these precious ones, each day is an ode to joy. “No pain, no gain” is a larger truth than those who say it usually know.
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