It’s a bit cliché, no doubt, airplane seat photos and videos. It would seem, quite simply, that every passenger basically has the same view. The windows that line the plane are identical all along. So, yes, every passenger has the same view of the sky, of the cities, of the landscapes. But every passenger does not see the same thing.
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The dreary clouds tried to hide it, but their efforts were no use – clouds of smoke sifted into the air, in the very near distance. And the flames below came from an airplane.
The few early morning flyers, half asleep in chairs nearby the window, immediately rose, their gazes cast out at the flames.
My taxi driver, a Dublin native, spent a good half of his life in New York.
He was trained and employed in an American bank for nearly 35 years.
The sign was blunt as black. Black, as in the color of death, somehow. So, may I presume that going the wrong way is destined death?
I'm reminded that our bodies will be in the ground one day. Death is imminent.
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The infamous breakfast - obesity correlation debate. There it was, yet again, page two of what is meant to be free of bias.
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I see unicorns and volcanic eruptions and I'd like to think that they were not mere figments of imagination.
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There was one point that my eyes would no longer hold. It should have been, one might assume, a real source of nerve for a solo traveller. But it wasn't.
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A little brother of mine once asked if I ever, for lack of more concise words, retain images in my eyes after I'm no longer looking at the scene. Perhaps he was unknowingly referencing photographic memory. But something more powerful than the single image is an image and accompanying sound.
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