07 May, 2007

train travels

In about a month of train travels I've been moving
= Warsaw, - Berlin, - Krakow, - Poznan, - Wroclaw, - Leszno , =
and all the little villages, towns, cities- along the way.

Poland's PKP train company has made this all possible.

Travels in the early morning, midday, and as the sun sets.
the Train moves and I move forward and backwards as we travel.

Watching, talking, sleeping ,eating, using the bathroom as we all move together traveling in time. In these fast and slow moments, pulses. We are all moving forward but some are sitting backwards.
I can handle both now, after all the train travel.

Sometimes the view is vast ~ sometimes you see the paint falling off the train station stop and the beggar and drunks around the corner.
Sometimes I see picnics on little bridges, sometimes markets, sometimes cows and sheep and sometimes cars and other trains with travelers.

Sometimes we move as slow as a bike but we are a train.
and sometimes the time goes so quickly it feels like a plane.

On a train you can sit back and watch the non-stop movie that goes by. The movie of reality that we are all apart of, go on and on and on.

My train travels has brought me to friends I don't see so often, has brought me to song, and songs along the way, the train has fed me along with the milkshake in Leszno on the street. The beers on the boat in Wroclaw and the train that brought me to the taxi that brought me to the what we think was the village of 4 houses that my great grand mother was from some 100 years back. She probally also took trains travels. Train travels to far away lands.

Trains have a peace to them, the movment like a rocking chair, the sounds so familiar, the people always different.

The need to take trains is in my body and heart. The need to travel, to train travel to learn more and watch and stop and listen and wander as time moves on. I move with it.

next stop....
who knows?

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