Trains

Hullo all!

I missed a couple weeks as I was on vacation - more to the point, I was on a train!

Orson Scott Card once said,

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any."

I believe this is especially true on a train. Everyone on board has a different story: from the young couple backpacking across the country; to the young family taking a day's excursion; to the attendant who has been working the rails for twenty years; to the businessman typing furiously on his laptop the entire trip. What are their stories? Who are they? Where are they from, and where are they going? What made them decide to take the train instead of some other form of transportation? 

So many stories just sitting right there in front of you, and that's just the people on the train with you. What about the big cities whose twinkling lights shine in through your window late at night? The sleepy towns that barely blink when the train rushes through? The solitary cabin set deep in the woods, far from anything but the railroad? 

Or perhaps the freight train that roars by in the night, its lights blinding as it blares its horn? Maybe it is really a monster, forced to travel on rails lest it break its bonds and destroy the land once more. 

So, how many stories have you walked past today?

<3 Belle