Author: G
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Presence on two wheels
My eyes tensed, scanning for debris, oil and an ice patch in the shade of the road; fear gripped my body with the concern that wildlife could take a step in my path at any moment. My hands tightened, clumsily…
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Textures from the 2025 Southwest Trip
Images I took on a 3 week roadtrip last year. I’ve sat on them for months thinking I’d do some post editing, but it wont happen, so here they are… I was very drawn to the textures nature created. They…
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Fear and Judgement
Fear Motivator and demotivator A portal held shut by an assumed torrent of the unknown When you believed it had power… you fed its existence and growth When you saw it as a teacher and lesson… you became a student…
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Ctrl + Alt + Delete (3-4)
Well shit. I have come back to this for months and I’m just going to send it. I haven’t found a way to explain the interweaving of experiences that have happened or the tie from my last journey into this,…
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Gary Fisher Build 1
For those who have known new and old me, 2 wheels have been a theme throughout my life. It’s where my younger self constantly pushed boundaries of neighborhood exploration, my older (old) self found presence for the first time on…
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Why haven’t I been writing?
Writing started for me as a cathartic way to process my experiences and the work I’ve been doing on myself. Then, each sentence I wrote, meant as a mechanism to learn and heal, fell into the shadows of my over…
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Reading List
(will be updated continually) Consolidation of books I’ve been digesting, sometimes multiple times on this path. Note, this does not include any Chilton/Hayes, or FSMs, you are on your own finding those : UPCOMING READS• The Way of the Superior…
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Shadow work and finding compassion for the orange man through hidden sadness…
What began as a meditation to find compassion for the orange man became an unexpected journey deep into my own shadows. In the stillness, I met a child figure — a facet of myself born from thousands of tiny emotional…
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The fear of losing “me”
Pulling away the fairings and valences of my belief structure to explore and discover who I am underneath it all.
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… cracked carbon and abrasively machined camshafts … you never know…
The morning starts off with excitement as I walk to the garage to finally ride my bike this year after rebuilding it. Today is going to be awesome; I was ecstatic as I haven’t ridden in almost 8 months. ……
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Going with the flow… but whose?
The concept of water and flow is becoming a theme for me in all assessments, tests, readings, interactions, and experiences, but this “going with the flow thing”—being water—well… it seems things are a bit more fluid than what I’m capable…
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Piston Ring Wisdom
…mmmmmm forged and cnc’d goodness… when installed correctly… So following the mental beatdown a few weeks ago, I’ve begun training my brain in some very strange ways and applying the last year of work and some very apparent lessons from…
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The ‘Work’
Watches are for reference, you control time and what you do with it. Following the big 2 posts (Ctrl+Alt+Delete (1)) and (Ctrl+Alt+Delete (2)), I have had many people come to me to discuss the medicine and the medicine and the…
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Breaking of the engineering mind (1)
It appears when scheduling a post in the past, it instantly emails everyone. Doh. Sorry for the double send the other day. Ok, here something I’ve been wanting to start; a series of “breaking the engineering mind.” As I have…
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Torque Wrench Wisdom…
Well, its been a bit over a week since I mentally and emotionally beat the shit out of myself (LINK). When proverbial Kroil, breaker bars and a blowtorch don’t force movement in a stuck bolt or mind, sometimes a bit…
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Super Surfing life’s flow…
We’ll get to the skateboard…a 1960’s Hobie Super Surfer… My wife and I exit the hotel, groggy and exhausted from a 12 hour drive the day before, proceeding to breakfast, but carrying a mix of confused feelings and emotions that…
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Ctrl + Alt + Delete (2ⁿ)
Prologue If you read the last Ctrl + Alt + Delete (1) it is more akin to me frying a clutch on one of my motorcycles. Something that highlights what needs to change in your driving, but nothing machine ending,…
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Stripping down with Daniele, the Italian Mistress
Chill out, it’s just a motorcycle; my 2000 Ducati 748, aka Daniele, my Italian Mistress, who’s namesake comes from my wife’s middle name, who is Italian. She’s a beautiful, dangerous, finicky, and often broken down, 25 year old Italian from…
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In the room?
Same friend as the dying leaves, new shared wisdom. Despite the massive strides I’ve taken to find a new state of presence and disconnect from a deliverable based identity, I still have the drive and itch of somebody training in…
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete (1) and the Beginning
Diving back into my first journey and the path that got me there before Ctrl+Alt+Delete (2). I wrote notes the morning after this experience and have just let the series of changes unfold for the past 7 months, only writing…
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