No matter what we drive, let’s all make due care and courtesy on the road a resolution for 2010.
Tell your friends and family. Tell your coworkers. The roads are a public space where we all interact every day. What happens there affects our state of mind, the way we feel about our fellow citizens and the place we live. When the roads area a place of stress, anger and hostility, we carry it into our workplaces, our homes and other public spaces. When the roads are a place of cooperation and tolerance, the positive energy carries forward into the rest of the community. We give our citizens greater freedom to chose walking and bicycling, which in turn enhances quality of life and human interaction within the community. It is a positive spiral of livability that begins with each individual making a choice of how to behave in the commons.
Civility and mindfulness are free, within our power and can make our whole community better for everyone.
Happy New Year!
That’s a resolution I can sign up to too!
As always, Keri, your words ring true and are nourishing to our community. Thanks for everything you do to promote safety and civility for all of us who ride the roads, no matter how many wheels we have on our vehicles!
Absolutely! Positive thinking is a powerful thing. The more we can clear out the clutter of emotions and misinformation the better we will all be at clear, rational thinking. Granted, it’s sometimes difficult to do.
Oooooh… I’m soooo stealing this — with proper credit, of course
Excellent!
A Happy New Year to Keri, fellow cyclists and auto drivers too! On Car Talk this weekend, the Click & Clack brothers read about a bottle of Reduced Road Rage spray received in their New Products Division of Shameless Commerce. It was described as an all natural herbal vitamin spray which promotes calmness. I wish there was a show like this for cyclists and pedestrians but shoes and bikes are no where as complicated or humorous as drivers with extreme auto-dependencies.