Rich’s Ride – Page 17

But What About?

If you’ve been here before, you’ll know I’m not fond of rules. Control, coercion, punishment…as a teacher I found those to be pretty ineffective ways to run a classroom. The more rules you have, the more time you spend enforcing rules instead of doing important stuff. I learned later in my career that things work […]

Front Range Tour Video

I’m never quite sure how to summarize a tour experience. One way is a video. I hope you enjoy this brief look at Front Range Tour 2019. Can’t see the video? Click here.

New

The folks at Harvest Farm are a special part of the FREEDOM TOUR community. Each year since 2015, we’ve invited men from the farm to join us on the initial stage of the Front Range Tour. For those who don’t cycle a lot, a 58-mile ride – on a hot day with what could be […]

Mislead

I might have mislead you. You’ve read the last two days about a crash and getting lost, and you might think our team is the gang who can’t shoot straight. Truth is, this tour has gone incredibly well. That’s kind of how it is though, with bike tours and with life. You can go on […]

Lost?

Monday we managed to get lost. Not quite sure how you get lost on a path you ridden several times before, but we did it. At the end of the day, we wrote it off as a great team building exercise. When you take off on an adventure like this, you like to think you’ve […]

Crash!

Front Range Tour 2019 is off to an on usual start. Saturday, we get rained out. In seven years that’s never happened. Part of the group got in a little bit of a ride later in the day, but we had to cancel Cheyenne to Fort Collins. Sunday we got started about an hour and […]

About Fighting

Perhaps we shouldn’t fight injustice. We want to end the horrible blight of human trafficking. Some might say we’re engaged with ruthless, violent criminals. The only way to win, they say, is to fight back. I’m looking at our never-ending war on drugs, terrorism, human trafficking and thinking more, bigger war might not be the […]

Only 12?

Jesus called 12 disciples. He could have summoned thousands. He could have surrounded himself with huge crowds of adoring followers. He spoke the truth of the universe. He might have opened a university-sized teaching enterprise to spread the message as far as possible. He didn’t. He wasn’t concerned with bigger and more. He wanted better. […]

The Difference Between Good And Good Guys

Last time we talked about the home team and good guys. It’s fun to cheer for the home team. Our cyclists enjoy wearing FREEDOM TOUR jerseys and being part of a great circle of committed, passionate people. We like being the good guys. We’re also really clear that uniforms are just for fun. Folks wearing […]

Check Out My New Bike

June 1, 2019May 31, 2019
by Rich

I’m anxious to show you my new bike. I don’t usually do Saturday posts, but we finally managed to shoot some video and I got a little excited. I hope you’ll take a minute (actually, 65 seconds) to check out my new wheels and the purpose behind them. Can’t see the video? Click here. As […]

Let’s Gather

People gather for lots of reasons. A group just showed up at the same place and time. It’s a collection of individuals with different purposes and destinations, but for this moment they’ve formed a group. A crowd is a group gathered for some common purpose, but there’s not much interaction among the members. Concerts and […]

When I Feel Angry

May 22, 2019May 21, 2019
by Rich

Does injustice make you angry? When I see kids abused and abandoned, I feel angry. When I see people homeless and hungry, or imprisoned unjustly, or oppressed because they look or think differently, when I see kids in cages, when I see a legal system that filters folks based on financial means – I feel […]

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