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Category Archives: Whitecaps on the Potomac
A Spectator Riding Into the City
I’m on a bus to the Metro which will take me to into town so I can visit the Historical Society of Washington. Been a month and a half since I’ve been on a bus and it sure feels good, … Continue reading
Female Stranger
Some epitaphs are lengthy and give an unusually large amount of information for being on a tombstone. This is true of the sentences carved into the stone that marks the Female Stranger’s grave. This tomb is almost a tourist site, … Continue reading
Posted in Whitecaps on the Potomac, Word Collections
Tagged Alexandria, epitaph, female stranger, Virginia
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Hark! Hark! Commuter Song
Hark! Listen! Do you hear it? Commuter song rings through the bus. I hear the sweet-cynical laughing chitter-chatter of jovial workers traveling to the Federal mines, endless warrens of office after office after office, sunless caves they burrow into day after … Continue reading
Flag Draped
This week, walking by a church in the District that houses a well-known, heavily patronized soup kitchen and homeless person service center, I saw several shopping carts parked outside the entrance, brimful of the owners’ worldly possessions. Draped over one … Continue reading
Gold for the Taking
I’ve never seen the river like this before. Here at a wide stretch just south of the airport that sits on its banks, the water is a huge, swollen lake, ponderous from a week of rain. The ample waters reflect … Continue reading
My Piece of the Potomac
I get a glimpse of the River from the bus stop I wait at Monday through Friday mornings, a view framed by two, ten story brick apartment buildings. We lived in a 400 square foot efficiency in the building on the left, … Continue reading
Posted in Whitecaps on the Potomac
Tagged green, interfere with nature, nature, Potomac River, tamed, wilderness
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I’m the last person someone sits next to on the bus
Commuting to and from work on the bus I’m often surprised and puzzled and, well yes, feel a tiny bit left out. It’s like I’m always the last person people sit next to on the bus and I keep wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Whitecaps on the Potomac
Tagged bus, commuting, like attracting like, seats
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