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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Riding my bike to see the corn

Everything looks better through spokes
Middlesex Centre, ON
July 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram


On the corner of Wonderland Road North and Ilderton Road just north of #ldnont, they grow corn.

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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