Dumbreck-Out !

In the office.... the travelling office... working hours 10:47-11:00, and 1.00-1:18.....

That's all the time you need to come up with a great idea and get it down onto paper.... especially if in the interim 2 hours you have cycled through the universe....

This is my taproot.... the cycle route from Paisley Canal train station to Bridge of Weir and then up to Barnbeth and Auchensale, round to Law, down to Kilbarchan, and then back along the Sustrans path to Paisley Canal. It's a leisurely 90 minute to 2 hour route, and without cars. Mostly, it's an opportunity to get back into the primal and that primitive activity of locomoting through a natural landscape. Whether we like it or not we are still primitive creatures in spite of all this nonsense that science can throw at us. The real technology is the body and its communicasting (communicating even) with essence and Nature. All other technology is necessarily false and thus destructive. So, where locomoting through a semi-wild landscape renders you alive in your most primal sense, not locomoting through it renders you unalive. This is what has happened to us: we have abandoned our own bodies and been body (mind) snatched by idiots pushing their machines and ideologies upon us. I mean, think about it, our lives are governed by dead men, men who thought that this or that system would be good for us, but which wasn't. And yet, we still labour under it, this age old draconian system of capitalism, of land-destruction, of animal objectification, of racism and industry. None of this stuff is applicable nowadays, since we all know better, and yet, here we are still suffering under it, being governed by the manic dreams of dead white men. So, by all means escape and break-out, and begin with primal moving through primal landscapes. In spite of my living ten minutes (cycle) from Glasgow City centre I can get to Paisley canal in 20 minutes from my gaff in Cessnock via the beautiful little train line that stops at Dumbreck. Even if I cycled it would barely take me half an hour. And then from Paisley Canal it's primal all the way through a corridor of a million trees that obscures any built-up environment that may be lurking there behind them. Forty minutes from Paisley Canal and I'm in the zone, physically, spiritually, universally. That's all it takes, an hour or so to 'arrive'... Some people spend that just staring into the mirror in the morning.