they are all within my reach

they are free. White people smell like dogs when they're wet... I was biking to class, and it started to rain. Cold rain. The first cold rain of the season. It sucked. It sucked because I had to go to class, and I was going to have to sit in class wet. And, as Elliot says in an episode of Scrubs, “White people smell like dogs when they’re wet.” I was going to have to sit in class wet & cold, smelling like a dog… But what made that bike ride especially terrible was I had just had an awesome talk with Joe. That was the conversation when Joe and I started to talk about working on this Advent project. So, I had been talking with him about all these exciting ideas; and, like I said earlier, it started to rain. Biking to class, getting soaked, I thought about that conversation. I thought about how spoiled I was that some rain was going to sour my day. And then I heard metal on metal; and a whizzing sound… Great. My pedals lost their tension. My bike sh...