On ApproachI wrote this while in the airport on my way to Fort Knox Kentucky to begin Army basic training. Sitting quietly in an airport, watching the movement around me in its hustle, its bustle. Trying to form a picture. It starts to become easier to see. To learn peoples movements and actions and continuations of conversations. A man in a suit talking with zeal into a cell phone about things that made no sense to me but mean the world to him... beginning to understand. To understand the ebb and flow of a crowd of random strangers. It is not a series of singles going on about their own routines. An airport is an entity. An entity of non-purpose chaos swirling in place with a million tiny, selfish causes. As it were, a chaos form. Purpose found! Exclaimed loudly! It is to spread Itself... To spread seeds... SEEDS. In winged peapods. Kwanis Acorns! But new airports are not born... no no no... more chaos is born. But beads of hope are strewn, laced, interwoven. A mother and her children off to vacation. Few more words to say... Airports are evil forces of nature. Escape comes quickly in one of its many pods, perhaps ironically. Into a nonsensical streamline. Chaos in neat. Little. Rows. The seeds interact and mingle with their seedling neighbors, but not mix. No mixing! But he asked to change seats! Okay then... MILDLY mixing. More chaos? TANGENT! To disassemble an Airport Forget the buildings. Forget the planes. Even forget the people. Remember what always matters most! Bold letters say CONCEPT! Always break to the concepts... The alluring influx to cull a mighty herd of people various walks apart. Family, business, criminal... All to be digested and spit in anger to their locations. Magnified or dulled, never improved... Going to the airport makes no one happy. |