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An Embarrassing Admission
by Jackie Green Louisville Eccentric Observer Wednesday, June 20, 2008 His hand shook. It shook not from any infirmity of age, I'd guess he was twenty-five, but from anxiety. This stranger had emailed with an "embarrassing admission". We traded a couple of emails and a phone call. Now we were meeting in an empty parking lot. He was tall, thin, nervous. A drop of perspiration was working its way down his temple. It fell from his nose when he bent over to pick up my bicycle. His first email told me he had grown up in a suburb so poorly designed, so poorly located, that his family was totally car dependent. He had never had a bike, never ridden a bike. Within fifteen minutes he was cutting figure eights in the parking lot. He was not the first adult I've taught to bicycle. And the tear that fell from my face was not the first one shed in the presence of the kind of strength that he showed, not the first one shed in the knowledge of the folly of our land use and transportation choices, and not the first one shed in the joy of watching a new cyclist float across an empty parking lot - like a hawk soaring - free. |