I was driving along the shore heading home late today, and I looked out the car window at the sky to the west. There was the orange light where the sun had set, and I noticed the gray clouds above the horizon. I have no idea why this occurred to me, but I suddenly thought that every day the sun rises and the sun sets, and performs this "ordinary" miracle. For a moment, I was more aware than usual of the cosmic connection we have as humans, to the universe. So the photograph is not one of my great ones, but it is a reminder of what I thought at the time I took it.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Ordinary Miracles
I was driving along the shore heading home late today, and I looked out the car window at the sky to the west. There was the orange light where the sun had set, and I noticed the gray clouds above the horizon. I have no idea why this occurred to me, but I suddenly thought that every day the sun rises and the sun sets, and performs this "ordinary" miracle. For a moment, I was more aware than usual of the cosmic connection we have as humans, to the universe. So the photograph is not one of my great ones, but it is a reminder of what I thought at the time I took it.
Always a thrilling thing to see, that view, that sunset.
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