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Stay in your lane

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I was roller skating on my local rail trail recently and coming up to an intersection, so I was slaloming slightly (barely more than C-cuts) to slow down. Someone on a bike came up behind me and said, "On your left!" Alerting people that you're passing is customary and courteous, though I don't know if there are signs suggesting we do that on this trail, like there are on the trails where I skate in Florida. There are also no alligators or exotic birds on my local trail. I was startled and swerved back towards the far right. "Thank you," I answered with a little wave. As the guy passed, he tossed over his shoulder, "Stay in your lane!" My initial reaction was WTF, dude!? You @$$ 4073! However, I said nothing. First of all, are there lanes on the trail? No. The picture above is the actual trail, and that person on the bike is the actual guy. Is he in a lane? No, he's right in the middle of the trail. ( Hypocrite! ) Furthermore, a g...
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Monkey mind

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Thank God I’m not the last one here , I thought as I grabbed my mat and water bottle. There were two people who pulled in just ahead of me and we all went through the door at the same time and oh look, there’s my spot in the back of the room – there was no question about it, since it was only big enough for one yoga mat. Those other two people would probably want to find spaces next to each other, anyway, I reasoned, as I kicked off my shoes and made a beeline for the spot. Ideally, I would have had more time to transition between chaos and serenity, but the school bus was on the late side that morning. I’d smiled and chattered amicably with my youngest (but truthfully my mind was elsewhere) while he showed me the tricks he could do with the wheeled backpack – the traveling compartment of “Butterscotch,” the class room teddy bear, and all his related paraphernalia – that he was returning to school after visiting at our house the night before. My son had written a story and drawn a pict...
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