I've been getting some comments lately that tell me my posts have either gotten boring, or "off-track".
It's true.
I've tried to keep the faith by posting photos of beautiful bikes as they come into the shop, and certainly I do plan on racing again this summer. But I am also working on changes in my life that have little to do with bicycles, and since this has historically been a mostly bicycle-related blog, I've been posting here less often.
To those of you who've written to complain: Sue me.
To everyone else: If you want to see what I'm up to these days, check out these sites below:
My Music blog: http://beth-hamon.blogspot.com/
My ReverbNation page: http://www.reverbnation.com/bethhamon
My Facebook Music page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beth-Hamon-Music/184286701676659
Just to be clear -- I still love bicycles, and I still believe that when people choose to ride instead of drive they help make the world a better place to be. I still commute nearly everywhere by bike, and now that I'm trying to play out in local coffeehouses again, I'm selecting venues that are relatively easy to get to by cargo bike or bus so I won't have to depend on a car to get me to gigs. I haven't changed the way I walk -- or pedal -- my talk. All I'm changing is my focus.
This blog isn't going anywhere, and I expect that there will be more posts when I get closer to racing season. Cheers!
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Don't change a thing. My oldest son, who is multi-lingual commented that a native speaker never mis-speaks. If a native speaker says it, then, as far as the language police go, it is legal.
This is your blog. You CAN'T go off topic. If you post it, then it is legal.
If we were all one dimensional life would be pretty shallow..
Your son makes an interesting point that reminds me of the work that had to be done during the establishment of the modern State of Israel. The choice to make Hebrew the official language had interesting consequences. Hebrew was historically a liturgical language, and the language of Torah; how, then, to transform it into a practical modern language that would allow Israelis to speak of more mundane matters -- without profaning Biblical Hebrew in the process?
Linguistic experts founded a national Hebrew language academy and began the delicate work of selecting -- or creating -- new words and vocabulary rules based on the original language but which would keep the biblical language separate from the evolving modern one in at least some ways.
For example, when computers came into widespread use in Israel, the language academy came up with the Hebrew word "makhshev", which literally translates as "thinking box".
Finally, the one thing you can't do well in Hebrew is to swear, to cuss. For that, you need fluency in -- wait for it -- Arabic.
Cheers!
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