Tuesday, February 7, 2012

chicago, from the train



this photo is from last february, a year ago
i go there today, an alien environment for me, so far from my natural habitat
i will wander
i will watch people
i will fade on streets where i have never faded before


10 comments:

  1. Something in those few words touches my heart. I haven't had time to root back further in your blog, to perhaps understand--or to find that there is no reason for your words to pull so. But they do, so, if I am right, be gentle with yourself.

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  2. ah!
    i am closing my eyes and imagining you there - how rich, how heavy with meaning, suddenly, these simple verbs - go, wander, watch - and then fade, yes, fade...


    (the photo is gorgeous - gloomy, menacing, a symbol of the entire brave new world of ours - i can't breathe in it)

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  3. Great photo---love the touches of yellow. Enjoy the wandering time...I love doing that.

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  4. To fade into such a place and breathe it all in. What joys you must have found :). I am wanting and thinking about going there soon. I want wander, fade and discover....

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  5. Gorgeous with the yellow, the whole mess of city living. Being a country bumpkin myself I adore a rare trip to Glasgow, preferably by myself, to wander around the chaos and watch the rush of everything from a Starbucks window :)

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  6. Jeannette: thank you. there is no special significance to my having gone there last a year ago -- but i always approach the city with foreboding, drawn and yet leaning backward. you felt that? :-)

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  7. Roxana: we go, wander, watch, and fade ... is this not a description of existence??

    i think of you in your brave new world ... be careful there and be safe!!

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  8. Hannah: sometimes we have to disconnect from our lives and fall anonymously through the lives of strangers :-)

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  9. Liz: you should go! never know what you might find, if you are open to the currents of the day and the city ...

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  10. Marion: i know -- it is an alien environment for me -- i am much more at home in a frozen swamp, miles away from the nearest human ... but yes, i try to find a little cafe and sit and watch the more respectable people of the world go about their business :-)

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