October Moments

oct 4

I didn't get very far. It's hot. But I wasn't trying to prove anything. I just needed to get outside on my bike for a bit, checking out the day.

So I pedaled to the beach and sat at the redwood table that occasionally serves as my church pew, and I pondered and perspired and in my own way prayed. A train rumbled by as I rode toward the railroad tracks to get back to the main road. The Pacific Surfliner, I guess, headed north. I could see the forms of passengers on board, and they perhaps caught a glimpse of me, a woman on a bicycle with an ocean behind her.

A pair of monarch butterflies darted about in the very blue sky.