Karma

6/10/26

There is Something or Someone out there guiding our lives…

With age comes acceptance of the Unknown…

On my rides I have often had discomfort interacting and working with  younger generations.  Many Boomers have similar problems as priorities of successive lots are often at odds with each other…

For this ride I had  more than  mild discomfort at the age difference between me and the other six route leaders… I could easily be a grandfather to each…

But…after meeting them I feel an unusual instant bonding connection … and recognize what quality people they are…

Only later much to my surprise did I come to realize why…

A young British woman just graduated from University who lives in East Anglia , rural England where as a medical student I studied  neurology at Cambridge and worked extensively with MS patients…

A young midwestern woman who was born and raised 20 miles west of my paternal grandmother in Missouri…I spent many a summer there…

A  young woman from Portland Oregon… I’ve ridden with her grandfather twice…

A young man in the last year of pre med whose parents are a Retinal Surgeon and a Psychiatrist… my life long Yin and Yang of Medicine …love of Psychiatry and fear of Ophthalmology/  Eye Surgery … (eyeballs creep me out)…

A young bike mechanic from  Colorado Springs where I grew up as a child and fell in love with Mountains…

And finally a young man who will move to Australia soon to start a new life… a secret fantasy from my childhood.

Odd how I was supposed to get out of my comfort zone to trek across country only to have  fallen somehow into a different  kind of Comfort Zone… 6 people who mark various stages of my life …

 I know that I am supposed to be here… I feel that to the core…

I trust the Unknown just as I will trust these six over the next 11 weeks of my life…

Karma has enveloped me in Calm. 

Angel and Elsie are smiling from above … they have known all along…