basket

This is a photo, taken at night, of a flashlight in the bottom of a basket which is mounted on the front handlebars of a bicycle. A bicycle basket is, for me, another magical component of a fortunate childhood. A basket on a bicycle gives us a world to create, to isolate, carry, protect, and to cherish. It allows us the clarity of purpose to accomplish things we will attempt to do again later in life on a much larger scale. As we grow and mature into adulthood, the world we are now creating is achieved with less purity, less certainty, generally less success, and a lot less magic. But, if we are lucky, we might just get a glimpse of that magic, it's still in the basket, i saw it.