I am teaching early morning classes in my new gig. That means, for now, that I am pedaling to work around dawn. Someone remarked that I am "bringing the morning to the Bronx", where I am now working.
Should I bring the morning in a pair of panniers? A bicycle briefcase? Or some other kind of bike bag?
While pedaling across the RFK/Triborough Bridge, I saw the morning arrive in another conveyance
through the Gates of Hell--all right, I mean through Hell Gate or under the Hell Gate Bridge.
Perhaps I wasn't bringing morning through the Gates of Hell. But some of my students probably thought I was bringing them hell this morning through the campus gate!
Should I bring the morning in a pair of panniers? A bicycle briefcase? Or some other kind of bike bag?
While pedaling across the RFK/Triborough Bridge, I saw the morning arrive in another conveyance
through the Gates of Hell--all right, I mean through Hell Gate or under the Hell Gate Bridge.
Perhaps I wasn't bringing morning through the Gates of Hell. But some of my students probably thought I was bringing them hell this morning through the campus gate!
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch' entrate
ReplyDelete-Inferno, 3,10
Up here, at 64 degrees N, if I have an early morning class to teach in the middle of the school year, I awake to dark night, cycle through icy streets, ready to greet the sunrise at 10:30 after the class is dismissed. If there is an afternoon class, I pedal home in the dark, after the sun sets at 2:00.
The compensation: in June we have 22-hour long days.
Leo
Leo--Ah, yes, Dante.
ReplyDeleteSunrise at 10:30 and sunset at 14:00. That is a short day!