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This is really nice, Steve, that you are honoring this individual. When someone special chances into our lives and is such a special person this is what we should all do - honor them for being who they are.
Thank you.
Thanks for posting this, Steve. It makes me want to cry a little. But at the same time I have such joy in knowing that Bernie was my friend too. I have completed my journal of our time with Bernie and Delia and it is ready to post. I'll come over tomorrow and we can go over it, then I will post it.
4 years agoSuch a lovely tribute to a dear friend. Thank you for sharing this with us.
4 years agoYes, “initiating kindness” could be a sort of indirect motivation people have in going cycle touring. It's one of the benefits of travelling in a vulnerable (and slow) mode. Other benefits that come from the mode are the more obvious ones of exercise and developing endurance, and seeing/experiencing everything in detail. These have been valuable to us, but I might say that there are a handful of people like Bernie that we have met that are most precious of all.
4 years agoWillie Weir writes that traveling by bicycle presents many opportunities for “initiating kindness”. Your chance meeting with Bernie is a perfect example of this. You all gained from this, and it would never have happened if you hadn’t needed something. What a lovely tribute to not only Bernie, but what traveling in a vulnerable mode gives to all who choose to participate in the vulnerable/kindness cycle.
4 years ago
Great writing and testimony of kindness.
4 years ago