Wits Guts Grit by Jena Pincott

Author:Jena Pincott
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2018-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. —Albert Einstein

On the soft summer evening of July 22, UJ blows out six candles on a peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookie ice cream cake. She’s lighthearted. She is wearing a new fuchsia sundress and has a view of green mountains. She reveals two of her birthday wishes. One, no more pollution. Two, to ride a two-wheeler.

I feel a kind of acceleration. Bicycling! After a month of country workouts, I have been wondering how to keep up the exercise once we go home to the city. Bike riding qualifies as somewhat proprioceptive. It requires core stability, balance, strength, endurance, and sensory feedback about position and movement of the muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissues. It involves movement and navigation: swerving around potholes and vertebrates wearing lizardskin Prada.

But first there’s an Everest to climb. To ride a bike, she needs to learn to balance, get over the fear of falling, and get up after a crash. She’ll need to keep pedaling to stay upright even when her instinct says to stop. Come to think of it, this just about sums up the challenges of the cerebellar epoque: to stay steady, steer well, and use momentum to keep moving forward.

That’s my birthday wish for her.

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