Pigeons are Ambidextrous

I love spring, but then who doesn't.... The lake has thawed and the beloved "Klunker" -a mid 80's minivan the local Lion's Club pushes on the ice-has taken it's plunge.... Gone is the ice on the roads and the below 0 mornings. The bulbs in the yard have been starting to pop up and the trees are covered with buds. In a very short time those trees will be revealing leaves and flowers. If I was more poetic I would say it's "magical..." I think if you have allergies or hay fever you probably don't like spring.... but I like spring.

I'm thinking about getting a new bike. I love that about spring... Such a mild season, not too cold and not too hot... I'm super fortunate; I live like 4 miles from work, so I can ride a bike through neighborhoods to work. If you live in a city, you call it commuting. Here we just say we are riding a bike to work. I rode my bike a lot growing up to both school and work. I used to draft behind trash trucks and buses in the dark, cold, "wee hours" of the morning. On really cold mornings I put socks on my hands to keep them warm, I know it's all relative, especially "cold" and California....

So I saw this really cool bike in our bike shop... It's a fatty O cruiser.... "Matte red" paint, super wide and cushy seat, laid back handlebars, full fenders, wide tires.... it's very cool.... and we all know image is everything.... Because I love to ride bikes, I have a couple other bikes already. One's a "hand-made" Italian, another is French. There is also a mountain bike and my wife and I have had a "bicycle built for two" almost 28 years. I like bikes. So when I thought about riding a bike to work and saw this one, I thought.... yeah that would be cool.

I'm not sure why I like to have more than one bike. I never planned on having more than one bike. I mean, I can only ride one at a time. But I also have 2 kayaks, but I can only paddle one at a time, I have 3 pairs of shoes, but can only wear one pair at a time. We have 3 cars, but I can only drive one at a time. I have alot of pairs of socks, but I only wear one at a time. I have 2 ice fishing poles, 3 fly rods and a spinning rod, but I can only use one at a time.... well sometimes 2. On my desk there is a pencil and pen holder deal, it's got a lot of pens in it, but since I'm not ambidextrous, I can only use one at a time. I guess if I was ambidextrous or if there was another one of me then I could use more than one at a time. At one point we used to have homing pigeons. We started with 9 and after a couple years we had 10 times that. We never planned on having that many.....

I think pigeons must be ambidextrous.... otherwise they would fly in circles....

Sometimes it just seems like I'm sort of "flying in circles" when it comes to stuff. I mean sometimes the moment I get something new, cool, or functional, I want another.... a different or a "better one".... It's almost Pavlovian.... So I talk myself into it... and then again... and again... and again....

There's this show on TV called "Hoarders".... maybe you've seen it.... they say it's a disease, maybe it's just greed... Now I'm not saying I'm a "hoarder," I just like stuff, and really I never had "an issue" with loving money, I just like the stuff you can get with money.... there's a lyric of Cheryl Crow who sang, "It's not having what you want... It's wanting what you've got...."

I think my contentment with life, is reflected in the way I show contentment with stuff.... know what I mean?.... but if I was ambidextrous.....

I guess God didn't make me ambidextrous for a reason.... what if I was a pigeon......

Anyway, I think if Jesus had a choice, he would ride a cruiser.... it's way hard to jump on carbon fiber in a toga.... and he'd miss all the waves and nods.... I'm pretty sure he wasn't particularly concerned about his image, he wouldn't ride one for that reason. No, if people saw Jesus on a big 'O Pee Wee Herman,"..... sans tassels of course..... they wouldn't say anything, cause it would look so natural.....

especially since Jesus wasn't ambidextrous......

Sometimes I just wish I was ambidextrous, so I could use all the stuff I have.....

More later....