Every Street has its own vibe and color.
There is tone and hue and texture alive even in the concrete jungles that occupy our world's largest cities. The opening picture is the street I pass by every day to go to the school to teach. The video below is the street down the block from our house in front of the University. Listening to the video you can hear that each street really does have its own beat.
This street is open to whoever wants to play.
And on the weekends this street is closed to cars and buses giving room for students and anyone to publicly display any talent or ability. There is everything on this street from jugglers to basketball players and teeny dancers to Rudolph the red nosed reindeer and Santa Claus’s elves.
This culture street is in front of Yonsei University and also has some kind of music going on Friday and Saturday night. I took this video when it was still daylight so there wasn’t much of a crowd. For some reason more people come out when it gets dark. They gather around and the environment gets festive.
It is so close but so far.
After all these years I’m still amazing how just a few blocks away from our quite mountain neighborhood there is a bustling cultural district. When we walk back home it is like a time warp to another century. Everything is quiet and still. We no longer hear the street and the music but we hear stomping of little feet in the snow.
I’m very grateful God put us in this niche we are in.
There is just enough culture and commerce of the bustling city that we can always walk a few blocks down the hill to get undignified. And there is just enough nature around our house that our kids can run around like wild and grow together with the pine trees.
We sent both our kids to public schools and know it is not perfect. We pray together every day but the kids are growing so fast. I came to realize that my son is taller than me. He wants to play the drums now. If he is sitting in the cold banging on pots and pans in the middle of the street then I will still support him. After all that’s what he has been doing since he was nine months old. No reason to stop him now.
Right now I will be happy if I can finish my tax report and renew my teaching certificate by the end of this year.
Peace,
