The Lingering Lemon of Death

unbolt

Today is a beautiful day.  My friend Dave has unbolted.

Dave built this bike, and blogged about it, and it was a thing of beauty.  Then one day he got a cool thing, a little two stroke engine that converts a bike into a moto-bike.  And for a while, this bike had a motor.  Which was kind of cool, except there was the constant sadness of the lost beautiful simplicity of the bike-that-was.

The motor recently got unbolted, and the one speed is restored to its former humility.

For me, this is a beautiful metaphor.  The motor was cool and useful, but it didn't belong on this bike.  The right thing to do, was unbolt.  Today I am wondering about unbolting.  What things have I glued together that maybe need to be unbolted.  This photo is my prayer for the day, "Lord help me unbolt"

BTW Dave has a completely different musing, based on this same event.

 

annual re-post: a prayer for superbowl sunday

psalm CLXXVII

to the chief musician
to be sung on superbowl sunday

my brain is dirty and needs to be washed,
  my life is stained by indiscretion
i am hoping for your salvation
  your mighty power that can make me clean.
lead me and i will follow
  teach me, your words are like precious jewels.
i come before you with arms wide open.
  my heart is yours for the taking,

selah

help me to walk again in the ways of consumption
all the days of my life