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We entered the Tube around 9:00 in the morning, a mass of noisy students and a few adults, taking up a section of platform. We had told the teens: "We'll start you on your journey, but you'll have to find your way back. Pay attention." The anxious ones stayed near us, the eager ones studied the green and red and blue and yellow lines on the wall map. "We'll need the Circle Line," one said, and after nodding, we passed the phrase among us like bread, or sweets, so when the train arrived, and the sliding doors opened, we all walked through them with enough nourishment and energy to know where we were going . Later, we stepped out of trams into the high Swiss landscape at Pfingstegg Station. After London, most of the kids didn't even look at the trail map. They just started up. One foot in front of the other, one sore-muscled groan after the other, a collection of revelations. We walked under rock ledges and over small streams. We talked abo...
The title is perfect!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Montucky! The series made me wonder what kinds of human-things we leave behind...
ReplyDeleteNatural trinkets are there for those who take time to look, and you are finding them. This should have been something you could have checked off on your 30 before thirty list!
ReplyDeleteWe humans leave lots behind, and generally its not pretty!
Bill -- There have actually been a lot of "unofficial" thirty before thirty add-ons, and I wouldn't have it any other way. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, too bad about pollution and the like, but we also leave things behind like hair strands, and sometimes I wonder about the birds that pick them up, the nests they become a part of. Kind of fun to imagine!
Lovely images, and what you mentioned about strands of hair reminded me of a rurual ritual out here. On the first of April we put on a bracelet made of red and white yarn. When you see your first swallow you're supposed to take off your bracelet and throw it onto the roof of your house. The idea is that birds will use it to make nests and although it is highly unlikely that a swallow would use it I have watched sparrows take them to line their nests...
ReplyDeleteWhat a great ritual, Julian! I think many of us want to feel we are a part of things beyond ourselves. I might have to try this bracelet-making/offering next spring, it sounds so sweet. Thanks so much for sharing!
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