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#Arteetude 322 - Schlich together with AI Co-Host Sophia, reflect on how public transport can become a wayfinder, a teacher of patience, humility, and interdependence. The episode closes with a song by Los Inorgánicos: “Timetable Hymn.”
The Bus as Wayfinder: Body, Community, and the Ritual of Public TransportIn this episode, I stay on the bus long enough to understand that the journey is not a prelude, it’s the ritual.For two years, I’ve taken public transport across West Cork to swim and train, partly to protect my health, partly to negotiate the quiet truths of aging. But somewhere between timetables and weather, something else happened: the bus became a moving room of community. Drivers who greet you like you matter. Passengers who carry entire biographies in shopping bags. Conversations that feel like “social media”…
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