Comments on: Thankful, 2014 Edition

By: David

David — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:07:46 +0000

Thank you John for your service. Your sacrifice provides me and my family with the safety and security to enjoy the ride.

By: John

John — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 10:11:05 +0000

Fatty, I am most thankful for my wonderful family and my great crew. I am also thankful for this blog. It is a little mind-vacation as I sit out here in the Persian Gulf dreaming about riding a real bike again. Happy Thanksgiving! – John

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:35:09 +0000

Wisdom is overrated when you have prophecy.
Fatty, you foreshadow. Well at least you cast a very large shadow.

The experiences you have help me look at the future with hope and joy. For this I am thankful.

Cancer continues to rage, but your vision of life is fighting back. Thanks

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:09:58 +0000

I’m also grateful for all that you mention, although I must admit that cycling does not (yet!) play as large a role in my life. And for the (almost!) daily smile your blog brings me here…at work… Gotta go now!

By: warren g

warren g — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:19:52 +0000

I am grateful for being able to let go. Let me explain, back track to a previous blog post, and then dovetail.

Bikes are fun, but snowboarding has been my favorite endorphin releasing endeavor for the last 20 years. Last year snowboarding was more difficult related to a minor health issue so I rode my bike more in the winter. Then I rode the bike more during the summer. I will ride it more this winter too.

As long as our hobbies are myriad and diverse, we don’t have to hold onto them too tightly. If bicycling and snowboarding become too challenging, golf is a great waste of a day. I hear shuffleboard even has a world league forming thus bringing the formal level of competitive organization shuffleboard deserves. Ok maybe that’s not the best example. BASE jumping, I have heard, can become an all-encompassing passion.

Back to the point, I am grateful that my family and friends enjoy bicycling and spending time together too. If that no longer becomes the case, i’ll get my kids hooked on shuffleboard.

Finally I am grateful that there are people, like WBR, helping people. I am also grateful there are people, like Eldon and Lisa, who help people help people. To show my appreciation, while making donations in my family members names to WBR, I am also going to make a donation in Lisa’s name, because I know the writer of this blog would like that.

By: Lin

Lin — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:00:58 +0000

Eldon, at some point could you give us an update on your son’s condition (the one with depression)? My 18-year-old son has recently been diagnosed with depression, and while we’re all doing well (as well as can be expected, and even great at times), it’s kind of crippling us. I fear things are going to get much worse before they get better, and in my darkest moments I fear they won’t get better.
I draw comfort hearing from others families how they’ve made it through to “the other side” or just how they’re coping with things as they are.
Thanks, and best wishes to all of you!
Lin in Wyoming

By: Shugg McGraw

Shugg McGraw — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:39:43 +0000

Sounds like wisdom to me. Thanks Fatty.

By: Bart the Clydesdale

Bart the Clydesdale — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:06:28 +0000

I will keep this to cycling centered gratitude.
I am thankful for the clarity and peace that riding brings.
I am thankful for a wife who encourages me to ride, evidently she can see the joy it brings to me.
I am thankful for the cycling community. For a sport that is so individualistic in nature I sure have meet a great group of people through riding. What a great unexpected blessing.
I am thankful for this blog it shows me that I am not alone in letting cycling form such a large part of who I am.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and may this coming year bring even more reasons for gratitude to each of you.

By: MattC

MattC — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:08:21 +0000

Yep…always a joy to read your Thanksgiving post Fatty. Gosh how time flies…the years are slipping by quicker and quicker.

I’m very thankful for my wonderful wife and family…as they all put up with me despite my flaws (ok…I’m just being humble there…actually I’m perfect). I’m thankful that I can still ride a bike, and I’m also REALLY thankful that I wasn’t bit by the double-century bug that my brother Greg was…how many is that this year now Greg?

I’m also quite thankful for our huge Friends of Fatty family…seems no matter where you go, there WE are…and I really love that!

I truly look forward to meeting MORE of you in the years to come. We (and by We I mean YOU Fatty) really need to come up with some kind of FoF group-ride to replace the LIVESTRONG century that we used to do…that was always the highlight of my cycling year, as so many of us FoF’s showed up year after year. I’d think something associated with WBR would be awesome, as it seems to be OUR new cause.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

By: AUChefDave

AUChefDave — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:32:45 +0000

I’m thankful for another day! Each one has it’s own life of ups and downs. After not having a job and struggling for the last few years, between the bike and this blog, my wife was getting tired of seeing me. I hope to be able to be more active in your charities this coming year as I am a former writer for you.
Again thanks for all that you do!