BIKING FROM BEACH/RACING 'ROUND RADIPOLE

Sunday morning.Out early to beach. Great big,blue sky.The sea as quiet as a millpond.This is the JURRASSIC RIVIERA ! Cycled from the front, on path around Radipole Lake as fast as i could, taking fotos with the right hand, and left hand covering the brake. i was o.k., not many out between 7 and 8a.m. And of those, who got up at 4a.m. to start day with yoga ?In being up so many hours, there is time for everything. No clamour or anxiety to actually DO anything. Nothing to achieve. Nowhere to get to. We already arrive every moment ,wherever we are. What's more, eager to get up in morning and love going to bed at night. About average of 18 hours a day to play with. Need some Gopis. Need a flute. Need for nothing....



Maybe i'll be trick-cyclist ! People tell me i should wear helmet. Remember 1968,with Phil, on the back of his motorbike, me wearing no helmet (it wasn't the law in those days), a pair of shorts, a shirt, a black lambswool cossack hat, and nothing on my feet - riding from Barmouth to swim off  the sand-dunes at Dyffryn when he didn't have his girl-friend with him. On our way back, leaning into and around the bends, Phil turns and laughingly says -" that was close, i almost hit my head on the rock face !"...then still on adrenaline we get to the "S" bend where at the top you can see a good way along the road ,and if clear, you can go fast, up and down into the dip, more-or-less in a straight line. Crazy stuff, thinking back. My first time away from home. 20 years old. It's that feeling i have right now...i still sing "Groovin" by the YOUNG RASCALS, but my big song at present goes like this = WILL YOU STILL NEED ME, WILL YOU STILL FEED ME, WHEN I'M 64. But i'm forgetting, ADELE, JESSIE J, AND LANA DEL RAY....forever young (BOB DYLAN)

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