Adaptive Tricycles, Eduardo Galeano and Missy Slick

 Missy Slick, a reader of this blog and great graphic artist sent me an email describing what sounds like a wonderful book by Eduardo Galeano, called Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History. This morning, Oliver and I just so happened to have cleaned off the adaptive trike rusting in our backyard and taken Sophie for a ride, so here's an example of quite perfect synchronicity:

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June 19th 

DANGER: BICYCLES!

"I think bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world," said Susan B. Anthony.

Her companion in the struggle, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, said,  "Woman is riding to suffrage on a bicycle."

Certain physicians, like Phillipe Tissie, warned that the bicycle  might provoke abortion and cause sterility, while their colleagues insisted that this indecent apparatus might lead to depravity because it gave women pleasure when they pressed their intimate parts against the seat. 

The truth is the bicycle gave women mobility, allowed them to leave the house and enjoy a dangerous taste of freedom. And it was the bicycle that sent the pitiless corset, which impeded pedaling, out of the clothes closet and into the museum.

Word is, too, that the Duet is being shipped to us this week!