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through a dirty
window, I see
a very Dutch
landscape glide by
its changes
almost imperceptible
The other day I took a train in The Netherlands. I love train rides, and how the landscape glides by the window. Constantly changing, and, in some cases, very much the same as years ago. In a world where everything is always in flux, things that stay the same stand out. So I noticed a typically Dutch landscape, with low skies, patches of trees, and stretched agricultural fields cut-through with little canals. In the distance, and sometimes quite close by, a little village with a church spire sticking out.
If you are like me, inertia feels uncomfortable. But it also can make things feel familiar. And in control. That is what I liked about looking out of the window on this particular train ride: I found that in our world, change may be the only constant, it sometimes is just imperceptible.
How has your landscape changed?
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This YouTube account has several videos of train rides (in Europe). Not narrated, not edited to be glitzy. Just footage shot in and out of the train. Fun to see different trains, awesome to see several stations, and mesmerising to see all these beautiful landscapes.
Arjan Tupan
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A train ride through my home country inspired this week's poetry shot: https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/trainscape?referrer=0xB31Faa5c1D581C70F4b6ed095c944936cBd2a357
On a Dutch train ride, a landscape of low skies, patchwork fields, canals, and church spires glides by. The piece notes that change is constant, often imperceptible, and inertia can feel familiar and in control. How has a personal landscape changed over time? @arjantupan