vanessa beeley
One Hero’s Tale: GB-Divide
I’d be grateful if everyone would forward this to sympathetic parties. Ed deserves ten times as much sponsorship money as he has at present, as does the charity. My thanks.
By MRA-UK: I volunteer with the charity FNF Both Parents Matter Cymru (a Welsh charity, separate from the English FNF). The brother of the assistant manager of the charity is one Edward Wells. Ed is a Royal Marine. It shows.
GB-Divide is a bike ride. Rather a long one. Here’s how the organisers describe it,
“GB-Divide is a ~2,000km self-supported gravel bikepacking Individual Time Trail (ITT) route from Land’s End to John O’Groats taking in some of the best riding and scenery the UK has to offer. It was made by The Racing Collective and is the route used for GBDURO.“
A World On Fire
The World Is On Fire. Most people are not willing to think about it or talk about it. Yet...
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker: Every day, news reporters, traders, and workers of all sorts the world over wake to do their work as they always have. Part of that requires that everyone pretend that life is normal, fixable, and more or less stable. All of this is temporary. It will come and go and really not be that bad.
Strange, isn’t it? Human beings have a hard time adjusting to disaster, in their decision-making and even in their mindset. Reporters have to do their jobs as they are trained. Traders too. Everyone does. They please their bosses. They don’t sound alarms. They don’t scream and yell as they probably should.
But there is a moment in the day when the work is done and perhaps a cocktail comes out or the dishes are washed and the kids are in bed and the room falls silent. At this moment, millions and billions of people the world over know it. Disaster is all around us. We are just pretending otherwise, simply because this is what we have to do.
It was this way during lockdowns. They must know what they are doing otherwise why would we be forced to do this. If we all do our part, maybe this will end sooner rather than later. The experts surely know better than we do what is what. What can we do but trust?