My morning commute was snarled this morning.<\/p>\n
At the State Center\/Cultural Center light rail stop, a car pulled out in front of the northbound train and got smacked<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I watched it happen. I was waiting for the next train. This wasn’t a train I could take; it was heading for the Penn Station spur, which would take me nowhere near Timonium.<\/p>\n
Police cars, some Baltimore City, some Metro Transit, came screaming from all directions.<\/p>\n
It was a gorgeous morning. Not quite cold, not really chilly. Just pleasant, in all the ways that a morning in early spring should feel.<\/p>\n
I pulled a book out of my B.P.R.D. bag — The Tao of Pooh<\/i><\/a>, brought to mind by a recent conversation — and read.<\/p>\n No reason to be anxious about being late for work, or waiting twenty minutes for the car to be moved and for the trains to start moving again.<\/p>\n No, reading a book on the Tao was completely appropriate for the moment.<\/p>\n Things got moving again. All was well with the world.<\/p>\n I don’t know how often this happens, a car pulling out in front of a light rail train. Not a lot you can do as a commuter when it does. *shrug*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My morning commute was snarled this morning. At the State Center\/Cultural Center light rail stop, a car pulled out in front of the northbound train and got smacked. I watched it happen. I was waiting for the next train. This wasn’t a train I could take; it was heading for the Penn Station spur, whichContinue reading “On Monday Morning’s Journey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[424,4093,686],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-baltimore","tag-life","tag-pooh","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}