Bikes And Bridges

even columbus looks better on the back seat of a

bike and all my fears get washed away in a

stream of blinking lights and the concrete strip

below seems less like a noose and more like a tie that binds or at least a tourniquet. it's been such a hard season and the bridges we burned might be

all we had to keep us from drowning. but at least

we had this time; and i'd like to think we're better off for it. i'll remember this. sometimes broken things make the best building supplies. and we'll keep on building. hearts aren't made of glass, they're made of muscle and blood and something else. and they don't so much as break as bend and tear. we have what it takes to keep it together; and move on.

any relationship that matters - a friendship, a family,

a romance, a band - anything - is a perilous

and fragile thing because along with all the

amazing experiences and creations that can come from something so intimate and exhausting comes the

possibility for things to crumble and shatter or whither and die. when that happens, it's easy to forget what was precious amidst all the disaster. we should always carry our history with us but never let it bury us.