I was lying on my back at the Rogers Park Metra station yesterday at about noon. I had missed my train by confusing the relative distances between Ravenswood and Edgwater and ended up deciding to just tough it out and walk up Clark street to Evanston, after a break.
The train platform was empty and stayed that way for well over thirty minutes, enough time to just relax and breath. Rogers Park and Clark street were really pretty quiet, for Chicago. The occasional traffic on the road, people working in gardens or on minor construction on nearby buildings. As it happened, I usually take a lunch break, not to eat, but mainly just to let my mind drift and wander. This was when I saw the dragonflies. Lazily riding the thermals about the curving expanse of railroad tracks. Raptors in miniature. Hunting or just enjoying the end of summer, I couldn't say?
I felt really and truly at peace. Couldn't have been more than five minutes, but the moment was a comfortable one. Free of anxiety. Free of fear.
The sudden juxtaposition of nature and the "built" and "engineered" city environment.
-GJS
Showing posts with label #Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Chicago. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
End of a Chicago Summer
We are just slowly winding down from what I think of as "the sweet spot" in the Windy City.
This is a period roughly between the middle of July and the last few weeks of August when Chicago gets an uninterrupted succession of seventy and eighty degree days, which makes up for some of the months of miserable, grinding cold that sends the well off and less physically hardy, running for the coasts or the sunbelt. I have been distracted with other writing and doing some preparation for a long, cold winter so, no posts here.
I do want to post a top five or ten list of the best fiction books I've read over the past three months and I might have a good reason to increase what I post and when now that I am much less busy hunting for projects?
What I have done is make a commitment to at least another year just living and working in Chicago with a focus on developing my own fiction writing and then we'll see what things are like near the end of 2017?
"H4ppy Tr4ilz"
This is a period roughly between the middle of July and the last few weeks of August when Chicago gets an uninterrupted succession of seventy and eighty degree days, which makes up for some of the months of miserable, grinding cold that sends the well off and less physically hardy, running for the coasts or the sunbelt. I have been distracted with other writing and doing some preparation for a long, cold winter so, no posts here.
I do want to post a top five or ten list of the best fiction books I've read over the past three months and I might have a good reason to increase what I post and when now that I am much less busy hunting for projects?
What I have done is make a commitment to at least another year just living and working in Chicago with a focus on developing my own fiction writing and then we'll see what things are like near the end of 2017?
"H4ppy Tr4ilz"
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