See his father off to work

Tuesday, 30th of October

The son set his alarm this morning early, so that he

could see his father off to work. The young man stood

there, holding the cat. He is concerned, he does not get to

see his father as much as he would like to. Maybe, maybe it

was just curiosity. Sit on the chair in the hallway,

putting on the still slightly damp shoes. The feet feel

the cold of the flagstoned floor through the socks..

The son asks for a few minutes more to speak, and

to fix something technical But there is no time, it is

necessary to go to work. So say goodbye and leave

the house for the dark cobbled alley to the church.

A short walk later, having passed the renovated

jewellery store and the bakery stop, stand at the

bus stop. Five minutes, the bus will arrive, and

all will be as usual.

At the railway station's cafe, enjoy the usual large

coffee in the usual kind of paper cup, with it's

plastic lid. Watch the people hurry through the

station on their way to the platforms. There is

the mosaic maker, rushing through the station,

neither looking to the right nor to the left. She is

a young women, maybe thirty, who works in

an artisanal place in Munich, making

mosaics for railway stations allover the

world ← They will work for churches too.

Later, the train passes through a dawn landscape,

skeletal trees on the cusps of all the hills, the

hills themselves in darkness, the sky barely bright.