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Marne's avatar

Man, I really needed to read this today. Because of the pandemic I've lived in four different places this past year, none of them permanent. I am still in transit. Most of the things I own are scattered in boxes around the country. I miss my things and then I feel guilty for missing them, because I am a person who likes to beat themselves up for no good reason. Today's Craft Talk helped me realize that what I am actually missing is my life, and the things in the scattered boxes are dear to me because they help me to remember it. Thank you.

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I also have a bike that means a lot to me. It belonged to my study-abroad university’s bike hire scheme and I bought it from them when I arrived in town and needed a bike to get around on (they had just bought a new set of bikes and were selling the previous year’s). It’s a heavy steel German city bike, with swept back handlebars and a luggage rack and Dynamo lights, very unlike the standard British market bikes which are marketed for sport and leisure rather than transport and utility. One day it will inevitably get stolen and I’m pre-sad about that.

When I ride it I am a different person - I take up space in traffic, I power up small hills (and inch up big ones!), I shout at drivers who try to kill me! I feel linked to the history of suffragettes in the U.K. for whom bicycles were not just a symbol of freedom but a tool for achieving it.

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