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SUMMARY:The Let It Go Ride (Mellow Monday)
CONTACT:@groundhogzday
DESCRIPTION:My name is Conor (@groundhogzday) and it is my distinct 
 pleasure to lead Mellow Monday with my first ride- \n\nThe Let it Go 
 Ride!\n\nHave you been through a breakup recently… or at literally any 
 point in your life… that just rocked you and left you picking up the 
 pieces? Whether you initiated the breakup or got broken up with\, the 
 emotional aftershocks can last weeks\, months\, years… a lifetime. 
 Unless\, of course\, we actually process it and let it go.\nIn the past 
 few years\, I went through a separation and eventual divorce from someone 
 I once thought I’d be with until I punched out of this mortal realm. But 
 alas\, the universe had other eventualities in store for me. This year\, I
  broke up with my first real significant other since the divorce\, and 
 although I initiated it\, it left me raw\, reflective\, and re-evaluating 
 what I’m looking for in a partner… and in life. Awkward. \nIt occurred to 
 me that I carry a lot of unresolved heartache and just… keep it moving. 
 Maybe you do too. In fact\, I carry it in a very literal sense. I keep 
 notes and letters from exes. Tucked away in my closet\, they radiate the 
 energy of yesteryear\, collecting dust from the weeks I go without 
 thinking of those who wrote them.\nWhy do I keep them?\nIs it in case we 
 get back together so I can pass them down to our grandkids? I don’t want 
 to get back together with any of these people.\nIs it so when they cart me
  to a memory care facility I can have a robot caretaker read them to me 
 and remind me that I once enjoyed intense romance with lovely women before
  the microplastic poisoning-induced dementia took hold? \nIs it to 
 document that I was once loved\, just in case they find me dead in my 
 apartment\, my cat sustaining itself on my rotten guts?\nI mean… 
 maybe.\nBut I’ve decided something.\nI’m going to burn them.\nAnd I think 
 you should burn yours with me.\nI think we should burn them together. As a
  community. Let go. Make room. Say goodbye.\nBike with me from Abernathy 
 Elementary to Poet’s Beach\, where we will ceremonially burn our exes’ 
 notes and letters while listening to Sleep Now In The Fire by Rage Against
  the Machine. The ride soundtrack will be a mix of breakup songs\, 
 getting-over-them songs\, fuck-them songs\, and probably some 90s jungle 
 DnB because that’s just a phase I’m going through right now. Please feel 
 encouraged to reach out with song recommendations via Instagram or when we
  meet up at the school.\nThere will be a store stop along the way for 
 anyone who needs White Claw\, a dry turkey sandwich\, whatever your 
 healing journey requires.\nYou don’t have to burn anything. You don’t have
  to say anything. You can just come on the ride and intentionally let go 
 of whatever you’re holding onto that no longer serves you.\nMaybe it’s 
 that job you got let go from. Let that shit go.\nMaybe it’s that 
 friendship that drifted for no particular reason. Let that shit go.\nMaybe
  it’s the filmmaking career you were absolutely certain you were going to 
 have when you were 20. Let that shit go.\nAlso\, it’s all welcome. Cry\, 
 scream\, shout\, laugh\, curse\, sing. Whatever shows up for you\, we will
  accept and embrace it as a community.\nJoin me\, your first-time ride 
 leader Conor @groundhogzday\, @nakedheartspdx\, and the whole damn gang on
  Monday\, April 13 at Abernathy Elementary\, where we’ll come together as 
 a community of fun-loving cyclists and support one another in letting it 
 go- all of it. - Meet at 7\, intros at 7:25 and ride at 7:30p.m.\,\nMeet 
 at 7 to congregate and call down our ancestors and animal guides. 
 Announcements at 7:25. Ride off into the night at 7:30\nEnds at Poet’s 
 Beach\nhttps://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-23456
LOCATION:Abernethy Elementary School\n2421 SE Orange Ave\, Portland\, OR 
 97214\nOn the black top near the basketball court is where we shall stage 
 our departure.
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