21 Years Ago & One Bodaciously Long Sentence.

The fuzzy photo above is marked "May 90" on the back, marking when I decided to develop it..  From the condition of the leaves in the background and the duds these tough guys are wearing, I would say it is a Kodak moment snatched from a late Fall ride in 1989.  Okay so that would be 21 years ago.  A solid generation ago.  Many of the tough guys I ride with now were but diaper wearing, marble eatin toddlers when this image was created.  Of the six manly men in this picture, only two of us still actively ride mountain bikes - the tall guy and the badass in the yellow rain jacket and all too hip nylon gaiters from LL Bean.

I was 37 then.  Old enough to understand my mortality, but still young enough to not care as much as I should have.  I was hard into that phase of Life where I was earning a living, buying a home, raising a youngun and getting into being very serious about Life.  I had to be serious.  Raising a kid deserves all the focus you can give it.  My daughter was 5 and it was dawning on me how important it was I be around to help where I could getting my kid from child to adult.

Yeah, I took parenthood very seriously.  Odd.  Never took much of anything else all that seriously.  My wedding vows maybe, but other than that, I was pretty loose about commitments.  And as I sit here contemplating whatever this is that popped up when I found that photo secreted in among a thousand other photos in a box I had stashed years ago, I realize that because I just wrote whatever came into my mind as I wrote down this sentence, I have forgotten what it was, whatever the point might have been of what I wanted to say when I began it.  So, uh....................................

Later..................................................