Traipse

To walk or tramp about; to gad, wander. < Old French - trapasser (to trespass).

India

Cemetery Poetry (2):  Hunger for a ‘Vaya con Dios’

Sep 11, 2022
We were standing in the street loading last bundles for a road trip when our good neighbor, Patrick, ambled over to bid us a ‘Vaya con dios’.  But before bestowing his godspeed he offered an aside.  It is these casual asides that turn out to be treasures of insight. He had been to a memorial […]

Cemetery Poetry (2):  Hunger for a ‘Vaya con Dios’

We were standing in the street loading last bundles for a road trip when our good neighbor, Patrick, ambled over to bid us a ‘Vaya con dios’.  But before bestowing his godspeed he offered an aside.  It is these casual asides that turn out to be treasures of insight. He had been to a memorial […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

Cemetery Poetry: The Place Where They Sleep

Aug 27, 2022
You can’t traipse very long on this mortal coil before encountering end-of-life truths.  A friend in Atlanta, in the Delta Airlines master operations room on 9-11, tells with restrained panache her version of such an encounter.  Driving blithely about town one day, she came to a familiar intersection marked by a traffic light (robot).  Since […]

Cemetery Poetry: The Place Where They Sleep

You can’t traipse very long on this mortal coil before encountering end-of-life truths.  A friend in Atlanta, in the Delta Airlines master operations room on 9-11, tells with restrained panache her version of such an encounter.  Driving blithely about town one day, she came to a familiar intersection marked by a traffic light (robot).  Since […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

The ‘Guest Room’: Of Cowsheds and Nightjars

May 18, 2022
Anyone with history of traipsing on a budget will have ample impressions of the phenomenon known as the ‘guest room’: sometimes kitted out in Victorian luxury, sometimes spare as a jail cell.  But always a relief.  The backstory is an ancient admonition that households do well to welcome strangers since heavenly visitors arrive in just […]

The ‘Guest Room’: Of Cowsheds and Nightjars

Anyone with history of traipsing on a budget will have ample impressions of the phenomenon known as the ‘guest room’: sometimes kitted out in Victorian luxury, sometimes spare as a jail cell.  But always a relief.  The backstory is an ancient admonition that households do well to welcome strangers since heavenly visitors arrive in just […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

Howrah Rail Station: Singular Scene of Human Drama

Mar 30, 2022
Sitting on the banks of a sacred river beside a massive Asian city, preens in splendor a rail station without peer in the world. At the Howrah rail complex, largest in India, 600 trains pass through daily transporting one million passengers. In many countries, this single rail station would be denoted as a city unto itself. But […]

Howrah Rail Station: Singular Scene of Human Drama

Sitting on the banks of a sacred river beside a massive Asian city, preens in splendor a rail station without peer in the world. At the Howrah rail complex, largest in India, 600 trains pass through daily transporting one million passengers. In many countries, this single rail station would be denoted as a city unto itself. But […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

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