“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” -Paul Dudley White

1962: “The American bicycle industry needed political support to win tariff protection and generate public enthusiasm for adult riding. Norman Clarke of the Columbia manufacturing Co., organized a breakfast in Washington, DC so the bicycle industry could state its case. After breakfast, Dr. Paul and Dudley White led a ride to the Capitol and it was an unexpected pleasure for politicians more accustomed to big black limousines. Leading the way were Secretary of Treasury, Douglas Dillion, Dr. White, Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts (to White’s left), and Secretary of Interior Stuart Udall.” via The National Transportation Library

“Walk more, eat less, sleep more.”

Time for another dose of cyberchisme, your fave bloggie gossip.
xxom
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Local grilled cheese joint gets tons of cash
American Grilled Cheese in San Francisco (South Park, South of Market) wins a $250K for their local impact, one of 12 business in the US. More than 3 billion voters voted.
Bread is local. Cheese comes from Marin. No secret we are foodies here.

My favorite is their cheese puns on the chalkboard. If you haven’t been, it’s a must.
Congrats! Read more here, via marketwatch: Chase and LivingSocial Award 12 Small Businesses
*PS their drip coffee rocks.

/American Grilled chese: previously posted here on October, 2010: Hello, cheesy

Bay Area’s Little league team
Petaluma is about 40 miles north of San Francisco and its little league team continues to be hot right now and underway to the Little League series, beating Connecticut last night.
Go sports! sfgate: Petaluma boys advance in World Series //

/Photo via sfgate.com

Coffee is the new wine
It’s like siblings, please stop comparing them to one another.
Anywas, interesting read. Tip/Hat to a few emails I received about this, including Alex.

The rest of the article here via NPR Food Blog:
Coffee Is The New Wine. Here’s How You Taste It
http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=158932704

http://8tracks.com/mixes/965316/player_v3_universal

IMAG2462_, a photo by meligrosa on Flickr.

los ma’velous. market y 10th

A eme O
Andre Echeverri, 2005

Andrea Echeverri is the beautiful being behind the iconic Rock en Español band Aterciopelados.

This woman represents poetry, peace, music, empowerment, feminism, and a tremendous advocacy to embrace inner beauty. Her unique voice and the straight up messages in most of the songs are statements that are as strong as the multiple colorful layers of their sounds, and representing music like a punk chameleon with a cotton candy mohawk waving a peace flag.

“A eme O” is an intimate lullaby dedicated to her daughter. The song was written throughout her pregnancy after she learned she was expecting, while still on tour in the early 2000’s. It also describes her experiencing a re-birth of her own self as a better person and lover.

The lyrics are moving poetry, the video is a beautiful way to start the week and to celebrate the inner tubes and veins that we all once navigated within the mothers that brought us into this world, to become navigators on our own.

And because I love languages, magic rhyme gets lost in translation however, here is an English version más o menos:

When you were born I became a better lover

As if you had unplugged my drains 

My breasts have grown, belly and hips 

My expanded body found its motivation 

You circulated throughout me and made me a divine road 

You opened a tunnel, uncovered my destiny 

A breath of creation, you are energy, sun light 

and have perfectly spelled: little LOVE 

Since you were born I feel a fire inside, as if you had lit a match 

My body is now vain exempt 

My brave body released its own relative 

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Powerful.
xxom

/ amorcito = love + ito (a sweet diminutive suffix)

“Be on the lookout for a wheelset with black Sun Mistral rims laced to silver low-flange Phil Wood hubs…”
Lighting does hit twice — photos and info via plattyjo STOLEN: Phil Wood Wheelset

Jenny has created a group (Flickr Pool) with a ton of pictures she has recently tweeted of more-than-likely stolen bikes “for sale” here: Bicycles at Bay Area Flea Markets

Sending you good vibes Jenny xxo

STOLEN: Bastard bike thieves stole my wheelset today.PLZ RT: plattyjo.com/2012/08/stolen…
— Jenny Oh Hatfield (@plattyjo) August 19, 2012

Thanks to these two gorgeous ladies for these graceful posts. So kind of you both.
Also, the film photographs taken by Dottie are beyond beautiful!

// Good eats and great coffee in San Francsico by SimplyBike 

// Bikes and the city print by Dottie of Let’s Go Ride a Bike

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much love, xxom.