Is Biking, Is Not Canoeing

Maybe it’s because I spent the better part of my holiday weekend cooking on the Namekagen River–where I slept under the stars but also encountered various flotillas of holidaying drunks who hollered “Whooooo!,” seemingly out of nowhere. (At the sight of me?) Well, whatever this feeling is, what’s clear to me is that I don’t feel entirely ready to reenter the civilized world. Not just yet anyhow.

Here’s something that teeters on the edge: Altered Aesthetics is hosting a bike-themed art show. On the AA homepage, there’s a beautiful image of what I think is the Midtown Greenway at dawn, taken just after the Dean Parkway exit but well before coming upon Lake Calhoun. Now, I’m not necessarily venturing a claim against cycling here. I’m an enthusiastic one m’self. All I’m saying is that there’s something about riding down that trail in the morning, and then turning north onto Cedar, that, however fleetingly, delivers me out of this city. In any case, the AA show features one hundred bike-themed works by forty-some artists. They should do the same thing for canoes sometime.


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