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Papa Rod readies the bike while riding north, and arrives at the Farmhouse safe and sound as the sun prepares to set.

Papa Rod aspires to the peaceful habits of the Wood Thrushes and their friends.  

Papa Rod listens to the sounds of the evening until the song ends.

Season 5, Episode 4, in which Papa Rod converses at length with folks along the route.

Papa Rod, standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, realizes that he is two old in the process of becoming who he is.  

Around the top of the lake.  Papa Rod ponders that the quiet to which we escape the din is actually the urban din for all the creatures who live there.

The blessings of a campfire.

pondering peace without clarity while riding in the chilly dark, bent on making it home.

Papa Rod ponders a night of dreaming, a day of exploring, and the evidence of things unseen.

Triggered by the call of the midnight train, Papa Rod ponders the depth of loneliness felt and expressed by Whippoorwills, falling stars, train whistles, Autumn Robins, the moon, and Hank Williams.  We do well to learn to feel what others around us are feeling.