Trains.
I was trying to figure out why the train was showing up as “full,” when a whole youth group got on in Ft. Worth. Another mystery solved. The most exciting portion of the ride: First Baptist Colleyville. Two of the keepers, or herders, were seated next to me.
Curious, one of the kids was wearing a T-shirt, an Apple logo on the front, the apple with a bite out, and the shirt read, “Once you go Mac, you never go back.” Kind of funny, and then, after I got all picked up to speed with kids sitting behind me trading bible verses like baseball cards, I was a little tremulous, scared, even. Them folks really don’t like folks like me. The train was full of them, too. Hundreds.
Maybe thousands. They covered the platform in Ft. Worth, eclipsing the station. Then, on the very short trip while we shared seats, the couple of herders, or sponsors as they referred to themselves, were going on and on about looking at feet and reading the signs.
That’s like palmistry, except for the feet, and palmistry is a form of divination, and most of the Baptists I’ve previously encountered are very much opposed to heretics like me.
I was rather relieved to hop off at Union Station, in Dallas.
Test patterns
Skull and bones motif. Not sure that it’s absolutely correct, but the image is from a Spanish Mission in South Texas. The carving is up over a north-facing entrance to the church’s sanctuary in the mission itself.
