Sometimes, when you doubt yourself, a best friend will be there with whiskey and pizza and Boy Problems and you will go to where one of her boyfriends is playing in a Local Band sponsored by a Local Magazine and smoke clove cigarettes with her until nothing interesting happens and you get on your bikes again.

And then another good friend will show up on a Tall Bike at the 24 hour pizza joint and you will know your destiny is to be the lady who has friends on tall bikes show up at 1:45 am at East Van 24 hour pizza joints, and you will feel OK about your place in the world.

when you are biking and the sunset curves far, both away and toward you at the same time, world dim through your sunglasses and wind ribboning your hair, and you think: just this.