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| Everything looks better through spokes Middlesex Centre, ON July 2021 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Come to think of it, they grow corn everywhere in the rich agricultural hinterlands that surround this town.
And watching the stalks grow from nothing to Field of Dreams-tall has become an almost subconscious pastime for us, a comforting reminder that real food comes from the ground, not the frozen foods aisle at the grocery store.
I often point the bike past the edge of the city because cycling through the countryside has become something of an escape from the real world, a temporary form of catharsis where it's just you, the bike, and the basic physics of riding the white painted line while cars whip past your left shoulder at triple-digit speeds.
It's less frightening than it sounds. And for a little while, anyway, the rest of the world can wait while you take in the spectacle of something being created from nothing.
In the end all I did on this glorious afternoon was park my bike so I could stare at corn for a few minutes. Yet something keeps telling me simple moments like this are a lot more important to our souls than we might have thought.
Which is my way of saying there’s more corn and bikes and weird roadside musings in my - and by extension your - future.
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