Big City Rivers of Invisibility

San Francisco Plaza Quito Ecuador 

"As long as the Oise was a small rural river, it took us near by people’s doors, and we could hold a conversation with natives in the riparian fields. But now that it had grown so wide, the life along shore passed us by at a distance. It was the same difference as between a great public highway and a country by-path that wanders in and out of cottage gardens. We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilized life, where people pass without salutation. In sparsely inhabited places, we make all we can of each encounter; but when it comes to a city, we keep to ourselves, and never speak unless we have trodden on a man’s toes. In these waters we were no longer strange birds, and nobody supposed we had traveled farther than from the last town."

Robert Louis Stevenson words from Inland Voyage still ring true for me in Anchor-Town.  The drawback for nice people living in the big city is that we pass by everyone else without a notice or a care.  We are invisible at times as Mr. Stevenson states, 'unless we have trodden on a man's toes', so true some days in this new town, still.  I am fighting long hours as I continue to try to change the big city effect in my day to day work environment.  Keep wishing me luck!