31 May 2006

Kent Petersen & Family


Damn it, I don’t want Kent Petersen to be a hero. I don’t want his family to be heroic. I wish they wouldn’t call so much attention – that there be more of them, somehow, that wished to do what they do, that carried it out and that liked doing it. I think it touches a deep chord, somewhere, for a lot of us. Surely, Kent Peterson would’ve been nobody to someone like my father growing up poor after a civil war. “So they have no car. They walk or ride a bike to work. What the hell’s so strange about that?”

The fact that something as natural as walking to work or riding a bike to a store has become so unusual tells a lot about where most of us are headed today. How did we get here? Or worse, we actually allowed things to become this complicated? To Kent & Family: My Deepest Respect.

7 comments:

shawnkielty said...

I enjoyed your post Alberto.

Jaco said...

Kent got you stuck? What's up?

shawnkielty said...

Are you still alive? Or did you die on the road? Doing the zen of finding your inner bike.

Jaco said...

You must be on vacation... Yeah that's it... You're on vacation... Right?

Anonymous said...

Inner bike. That's hillarious!

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