Michael Farley
Best Laid Plans
With a month-long break between semesters, grand plans were laid to rebuild an engine from a 1973 Harley Davidson Ironhead. After the...
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Life in the slow lane. Sharing my thoughts, love for motorcycles, fly fishing, travel, and lessons learned through recovery.
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Michael Farley
Jan 122 min read
Keen Observation
The keen observer will have noticed a couple posts in my stories with a link to Substack. However, I have decided not to follow that...
Michael Farley
Dec 15, 20232 min read
Silly Season
The Christmas crowds are gathering. Downtown is a flurry of holiday panic, a crush of consumerism. I find myself inhabiting a peculiar...
Michael Farley
Nov 12, 20232 min read
Past Reflections
So. As threatened I bring to you a much-delayed post. After an incredibly fulfilling summer of riding bikes and getting back on my...
Michael Farley
Aug 13, 20231 min read
City nights
There is something endlessly appealing about the anonymity found in big cities. The ability to blend in and be unseen, to be a voyeur...
Michael Farley
Jul 31, 20231 min read
People Surprise me!
I’m continuously shocked by the amount of people that connect with me outside of the blogosphere, IRL if you will, over the topics I...
Michael Farley
Jul 22, 20233 min read
Are the dog days really over?
The term “dog days” brings to mind a sentimental scene, ripe with nostalgia. I see a rickety set of stairs coming off the back door of an...
Michael Farley
Jul 5, 20232 min read
Permanence and eternity
The thrumb of countless stones pulsating and pushing against the crescent coast. Gently softening their gagged profiles, smooth and...
Michael Farley
Jun 18, 20233 min read
summer growth
Well friends, we’ve made it. The days are growing longer, there is a hint of coconut in the air 2km out from every beach in the city and...
Michael Farley
Jun 3, 20232 min read
Mark Wahlberg (will this generate like now?)
There are periods in my life when I can feel a shift. I can feel a need to tune in and absorb what is happening around me. The universe...
Michael Farley
May 23, 20235 min read
Mislead Manifestation
After waking up the fourth, fifth and sixth time fully clothed, on a rubberized blue lazy-boy my shoes having been replaced with some...
Michael Farley
May 14, 20233 min read
May daze
I find May an extremely hard time to get things done, as a goal oriented person I struggle with this. The NBA playoffs are getting...
Michael Farley
Apr 16, 202310 min read
Augusta Days
This will surely cause a problem; the beginning of another day, which Stuart has already missed by a few hours. The thick Torontonian...
Michael Farley
Apr 1, 20233 min read
Flush with Friends, not fish.
Last patches of winter's snow slowly melt as the sun goes down behind the soaring peaks of Sutton Pass; beautiful, imposing and regal...
Michael Farley
Mar 12, 20231 min read
Marched
I’m altogether and completely Marched. Heavy, unrelenting raindrops outside my window reinforce the sentiment. Stuck inside over the...
Michael Farley
Feb 27, 20233 min read
lens of perception
Within the last nine years, my life has changed dramatically. I never would have wished for the life that I have now, frankly, I didn’t...
Michael Farley
Feb 19, 20233 min read
Desert Glitz
I try to be aware when the universe is giving me a sign, yet sometimes *read most-times I’m far too stubborn, excited and/or attached to...
Michael Farley
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Youthful Exuberance
I find myself a little extra sore today, it could be from the gym? Or it could just be. Looking back over the week I seem to recall my...
Michael Farley
Jan 30, 20232 min read
A little luxury
A little luxury goes a long way. Giving ourselves our yearly reprieve always surprises me as to how invigorating it is. Floating in a...
Michael Farley
Jan 15, 20232 min read
Quiet
It's been a solid ten, twelve years that I’ve been rocking this Larry David ass hairline. I guess I’m used to it, I’m not shocked when I...
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