I was reading these great posts, and thinking "darn, I don't have any hobbies!"
Except oh yeah - I paint, and I take analog photos sometimes, and I screenprint tee-shirts in my garage sometimes. I sculpt. And I make omelets every morning with eggs from our chickens or our friends' chickens. I have two gallons of mead brewing - one just honey, pollen and water, the other with black tea, ginger and whatever. I tinker with my bikes, and build up bikes for my friends. This forum might be considered a hobby - socializing with like-minded bike people. I'm with Scott - these things are what we do when we do them. Not a hobby or a lifestyle. More like a life. I try not to feel guilt about what I'm NOT doing, but take pleasure in what I AM doing, if that makes sense. Oh yeah - I'm studying kung fu with my wife and kid. And making a video game with the kid. This perspective, I think, is very Rivendellian. Bikes aren't a compartmentalized commodity or identity in the Rivendell world (as I understand it), but part of the fabric of a cycler's life. Likewise, beer brewing or music is something humans do as part of a full life. Is there anything more fundamental to human society than those two things? Frankly, some of ya'll's jobs are more interesting than any hobby. I make websites for independent toy stores for a living, which is a pretty funny niche. Philip McMinnville, Ore. On Apr 27, 10:51 pm, Me <clotht...@gmail.com> wrote: > These days my hobby's are my life, my life are my hobby's. I've > worked really hard at seeing no difference between what needs done, > and what I want to do. There is only now-as opposed to 'after I am > done with that, I'll enjoy this'. Work is Play, Play is Work. > > Started out a jazz musician. Playing music, particularly jazz, as > craft and artform, is very much like a lot of things that require vast > patience and aged wisdom [nothing good happens fast-it's all work and > listening/watching... and perhaps someday, things come together and > you fly behind/at/on top/above your given instrument]. > > Besides my 1st 'high-end' or 'good' bike [relatively speaking], a > Bridgestone "Kabuki" Super-Light in the mid-70's it was all music for > me, all the time. > > Music, made by human's vs. people programming machines, dovetails > nicely with bicycling. > > I see, as I age, nothing but connections of Truth between bicycling, > honest music, family, cooking the food I make from scratch, > homeschooling our daughter, being forthright and ethically sound. > Nothing amazing happens quick, it's slowly dazzling. > > Getting your life back, that's slow work too. > > It's all good work/play though. > > -Scott > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
