Carfree advocate. Web publisher. Coffee fan.
The ball flew over a fence about a block ahead of me: Bounce, bounce, bounce, before settling into the gutter.
I scanned up and down the street. Good — no cars. I was pedaling home on one of the rat runs I use as much to keep things interesting as to avoid arterial roads. There would be no reason to panic if a kid ran out to fetch the ball.
But nobody came. I rolled up on the ball, looking for its owner.
The world lies to us every day. It lies so casually and persistently, we hardly notice.
Of course, not all lies are malevolent. We like being lied to, especially the silken deceptions of flattery. But it doesn’t really help us to be told we’ve lost some weight, when we haven’t. It’s like that second piece of pie — delicious, perhaps, but something which looks more appetizing on the plate than around our waist.
Autumn is a season of bounty, and of letting go. With summer’s leaves on the ground, it’s time for me to plow a few things under.
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Founding editor of Lighter Footstep (now part of Mother Nature Network/MNN). Carfree advocate, coffee drinker, and sometimes geek. Find out more.
