The sky was clear today, and I just witnessed my first and last total solar eclipse.
Slowly it gets darker and darker, as if the sun is setting—but the sun is still high in the sky being eaten slice by slice as the moon blocks its light. Birds look for shelter as they sing their sunset songs. And then, a bright sunflower blooms behind the dark circle of the moon. Not quite as dark as night, but still I see bright Venus in this strangely darkened afternoon.
Awesome doesn’t even begin to describe it. Extraordinary, phenomenal, transcendent. mystical, spiritual, transformational come close, but maybe there is no word because the feeling is indescribable. I am now one of the lucky small percentage of people who have ever lived on this earth to have witnessed this rare event. I feel humble, and grateful, yet wistfully melancholy knowing that it is over, and I will never see it again.
The sky was clear today, and I just witnessed my first and last total solar eclipse.
Slowly it gets darker and darker, as if the sun is setting—but the sun is still high in the sky being eaten slice by slice as the moon blocks its light. Birds look for shelter as they sing their sunset songs. And then, a bright sunflower blooms behind the dark circle of the moon. Not quite as dark as night, but still I see bright Venus in this strangely darkened afternoon.
Awesome doesn’t even begin to describe it. Extraordinary, phenomenal, transcendent. mystical, spiritual, transformational come close, but maybe there is no word because the feeling is indescribable. I am now one of the lucky small percentage of people who have ever lived on this earth to have witnessed this rare event. I feel humble, and grateful, yet wistfully melancholy knowing that it is over, and I will never see it again.