Bicycled

When I was your age, I bicycled to and from school every day.

He bicycled to the beach every weekend.

This morning, I bicycled to work.

Larry Niven's sci-fi franchise of Ringworld and Known Space stimulated my teenage years. Ringworld was a gigantic structure, a ribbon habitat that encircled a sun. I imagined, as I bicycled around my home of Lulu Island, that the terrain was part of Ringworld. Niven reinforced my belief that some aliens did not have humanoid shape.

It's a hot sunny blue-sky day with a little breeze so that I can flap my arms through it, this 1st day of July of 2025, Canada Day. Some people are wearing red. I ventured to Tim Hortons café for drinks and snacks. On my way, I saw Bob and George, the Greek-Cypriot brothers, as they just attended the festivities in Steveston Village, Lulu Island. There was salmon, they said. They bicycled. It was "fun," they said. Bob is visiting from "olde" England, where he now resides. A Thai neighbour with his Filipina wife hosted a nice Canada Day party in their cozy shady garden. People were sitting, enjoying food—Thais and Filipinos, probably. There was Mass in the morning at the "Clam Temple," where attendants even sang "O Canada"!