How to ride a bike . . .
And what is a bicycle? It is trust and balance, and that’s what love is. Love is trust and balance.
And what is a bicycle? It is trust and balance, and that’s what love is. Love is trust and balance.
“And what is a bicycle? It is trust and balance, and that’s what love is. Love is trust and balance.” – Nikki Giovanni
He has been dead for 59 days, and we both miss him. He missed her 16th birthday and the first time she got behind the wheel of a car, his car. And she missed him. It was this past Christmas Day – her first without him – that my daughter took me for a drive. My father, a world away from his rural Derry home, had been teaching her to drive on what he still considers the wrong side of the road, reminding her to keep her hands at ten-to-two on the steering wheel and, most of all, to believe in herself.