Things You Find Lying Around

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Dave Feucht
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Meandering around aimlessly on my bicycle some time ago, I found this little tiny street that had a nice surprise at the end of it.

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The wall of a building painted with portraits and quotes from various authors.

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” -Oscar Wilde

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“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then it gathered itself, and in one sweeping tide rushed me to sleep.” -Sylvia Plath

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“Out of all the conflicts and the curses, the blows and the anger, the tension and the terror, I had somehow gotten the idea that life could be different, could be lived in a fuller and richer manner.” -Richard Wright

“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” -Virginia Woolf

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“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of the things I appreciate about traveling slowly – I don’t feel as bothered stopping for a few minutes to take photos of something interesting I run across, since I’m already not in a hurry.

Hope you’re all having a nice Autumn so far – it’s been mostly beautiful here in Portland. Sunny and cool or cold and foggy, but not a lot of rain yet, which is kind of nice; I’m sure we’ll get our share yet :)

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  • Bicyclist John

    Hello Dave,

    I just love taking time to find those off the beaten track treats in life. Now tell me, how likely would it have been for you to find that street when driving? Now of course if you were walking around there you probably would have found it. Which brings me to my point which is bicyclists and pedestrians have way more in common than bicyclists and motorists do. 

    Now when you step back and peel away a hundred years of car dogma and thirty years of vehicular cycling dogma you realize that bicyclists absolutely need their own part of the public realm devoted to them just as pedestrians have theirs, sidewalks. Vehicular cycling makes as much sense as vehicular walking. Nobody expects pedestrians to walk in the street in front of cars now do they? So why should it be any different for someone on a bicycle? 

    Keep up the good work, I always enjoy it,
    Bicyclist John

    • http://pin-hole.tumblr.com Dave

      John,

      Thanks for the compliments! One of my favorite things about moving slowly through the city is all of the things I notice which I wouldn’t have otherwise. And in a city where a lot of people do move about slowly, there tend to be a lot more things to notice, as well!