One Year Since I Got My Motorcycle License and Our Amazing Community!

So today marks one year since I got my motorcycle license in Japan, and since then I have ridden through the mountains around my city and have ridden all the along the coast to Iwate in the Tohoku Region of Honshu.

It’s been a crazy journey, learning to be more confident and getting used to being on a vehicle that is one step away from death if someone decides to hit me or if I miscalculate a turn, a lean, a roadway…

I’m not being negative, just practical. I know the risks, but I think they are worth it for the freedom that I now have. Being on a motorcycle just brings me so much closer to the world. I see things differently. The same roads I have been down in a car just feel different.

I notice more - the ivy growing on the side of an abandon building, the cool shade of a shrine garden, the angry faces of the people in the cars around me (well maybe they aren’t all angry but man people do make the weirdest faces when they don’t think people are looking at them) - I think it’s more intimate.

Last week, I know my talk story was a little sad and depressing. I’m still not doing well but I am doing better. So many people in our community reached out and talked to me and helped me and I am so grateful to all of them for their kindness and generosity of spirt. Thank you my friends.

As always, sending light, love and creativity. Give yourself grace. I will do the same.