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inter/faith
I went to the chapel at the airport.
It’s all the way at the end of the terminal: it seems like anyone who is at the chapel found it on purpose. It didn’t strike me as a place where I could find solace or meaning or whatever I would have been seeking at a chapel.
Except, what I was actually seeking was a photograph of a liminal space at a busy and noisy facility. And I did find that.
Saint Louis Lambert International Airport
Saint Louis, Missouri
photographed 8.31.2026
travel/day
It was really quite warm inside the airport terminal the other day – summer-in-hell heat levels, with about a million percent humidity.*
In an effort to try to stir up a bit of a breeze, I went back and forth on the moving sidewalks for a little while. It did not make things any cooler and it may actually have made me seem a little deranged. But I don’t care: I’ll never see those people again and I got a photo out of the deal.
Saint Louis Lambert International Airport
Saint Louis, Missouri
photographed 9.5.2026
*My spouse once told me, “You ALWAYS exaggerate.” He said it without realizing that his sentence was itself an exaggeration, a thing that still makes me laugh more than I should. But still: that sentence has already been spoken. No need for you to bring it up: I am aware.
It’s just a game
I want to believe that the placement of a basketball goal next to a cemetery was the result of a priest’s attempt at illustrating some kind of theology.
Or maybe it was just where the ground was open enough and level enough for it to work.
beside Our Lady, Help of Christians Catholic Church
Frankenstein, Missouri
photographed 6.2006
