Sail Away Sweet Sister

This is all about God, prayer, community, music, art, poetry, theology, love and all sorts of things people run into on their life journey, especially when the second half of life is looming ahead. It is inspired by Fr Richard Rohr, by the Contemplative Outreach of Fr Thomas Keating, by C.G. Jung, by C.S. Lewis, Alan Watts, St Beuno's retreat house and all the communities I have a privilege to belong to. It is dedicated to and I hope will be used by my nearest and dearest, scattered all over the planet, and who are falling upwards with me.
Showing posts with label trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trains. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 February 2012

Compostage obligatoire, or the Old Woman and the Train

Train dream again. I am walking into a railway station, which reminds me of St Lazare in Paris, and of Historical Museum in Moscow.  The platform I need is very close to the exit. It is dusk, the sky is purple red; it is summer.

I am walking to the second or the third carriage of the train: the old green train Moscow - Prague I used to take when I was small, going to Ouzhgorod for holidays. I see a very old woman, whom I recognize as my mother's school teacher and life-long friend. She is standing on the platform, leaning on the train, very weak, her face has no expression. There are other people around - her family, among them I remember a boy of about 9 years old, perhaps a grand-son. 

I am heading towards the group to say hello. A younger woman whom I do not know, her daughter, greets me and says someything like, "How lucky! I was going to ask you to take care of my mother". 

I am going to answer "Of course! With pleasure" when I realize that I have no tickets. In a flashback, I see these tickets (2 of them) in my mother's hands, back home. They look exactly like the SNCF tickets I am so used to, and they are not there. And I think, "Oh! This is because I thought I had an electronic ticket!". 

Then the dream fades - I do not see the departure, and do not know if the old woman took the train. 

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Distance and Direction

More dreams about transport. This time (last night) I was quietly going against the tide of a crowd of commuters in my own familiar nearest metro station. Interestingly, the crowd seemed to go in, while I struggled to get out of the station... I swear --  I don't do it on purpose!  Waiting now for aicrafts, flying carpets, camels, horses, ships and bycicles, and other devices the enlightened humanity uses to deal with distance. 

Distance and direction. The way the movement occurs:  fast, brutal; slow, uncertain. My unconscious attempts to communicate with the tiny portion of my personality which happens to be controlled by reason, and which I usually call "I".  I am rather grateful -  clearly, I am not spoiled by the amount of communication received from the outer world; and wish some  people communicated as extensively as my unconscious!

Well. Just joking.