Monday, December 06, 2004
The Nomad
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Maybe the journey is the best part of each destination, but the processes not always as nice. More and more, nomadism is a hard rhythm to digest.
Between capitals and destinations, through customs and food courts, airline check-ins and coffee line-ups, I watch untrimmed moustaches and oversize luggage board the skies to somewhere. Names get called, items get tagged, articles are searched in a pattern that repeats day after day after day. A globalized world has spawned mini-worlds on our cities' fringes: universes of the coming and going. Where a quirky mix of the over- and under-paid trail their lives in wheeled cubes while the aged ably man the question-marked front lines.
For once, this new world might not be a bad one after all.
From each city, we find a location with its own rhythm and pace and space particularly defined by the surrounding consumables -- mountains, rain, big skies, everywhere neon, lapping waves, smiles, spices, smoke, sand or towering flowers. Herein these new worldly halls, the global community is assembled to understand itself: as we chair our very own committee of travelers, knowers, lovers, doers and dreamers. Our knowing is our tool...may we use it smartly.
S*
2004.12.06 14:53
Maybe the journey is the best part of each destination, but the processes not always as nice. More and more, nomadism is a hard rhythm to digest.
Between capitals and destinations, through customs and food courts, airline check-ins and coffee line-ups, I watch untrimmed moustaches and oversize luggage board the skies to somewhere. Names get called, items get tagged, articles are searched in a pattern that repeats day after day after day. A globalized world has spawned mini-worlds on our cities' fringes: universes of the coming and going. Where a quirky mix of the over- and under-paid trail their lives in wheeled cubes while the aged ably man the question-marked front lines.
For once, this new world might not be a bad one after all.
From each city, we find a location with its own rhythm and pace and space particularly defined by the surrounding consumables -- mountains, rain, big skies, everywhere neon, lapping waves, smiles, spices, smoke, sand or towering flowers. Herein these new worldly halls, the global community is assembled to understand itself: as we chair our very own committee of travelers, knowers, lovers, doers and dreamers. Our knowing is our tool...may we use it smartly.
S*
2004.12.06 14:53
