Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Glass, steel and very tough carpets welcome their sort


At the portal to the Investors Diversified Services Building skyway level, you are met with generous space and elegant glass walls. It is a peculiar feeling. Who is expected to walk through this shiny corridor of light and warmth above the frozen February street? Not children. The first reports on skyways advised the city fathers against having benches in the skyways, because in St. Paul, that was where the kids tended to hang out for hours.
So you have a clue. The skyway is a thoroughfare, not a ramble. Movement is required, not just suggested. Don't linger.
I linger to take a photo, and am acutely self-conscious of impeding a nameless flow. Whatever it is, it isn't the real Tao. But it is still benign to its own kind.
So if you recognize this space, and in fact live in something similar, then you are doubly welcome.
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