99.2% Eclipse Of The Heart

The eclipse. THE ECLIPSE! Did you see it? How could you not. I did't transport myself to the line of totality, although many friends did. The world, for now, is divided between dids and didn'ts. I don't have totality FOMO, though, because I'm one of those people who takes crazy pleasure in the simple and everyday. The velvet down of our pup's big ol' bug-catcher ears. Sandwiches on sourdough. Golden hour in the backlit woods.

All the good things, all the time.

Anyway, Monday morning was just your average 99.2% eclipse of the sun, viewed from the park by our house, with friends, with neighbors, with coffee. A community gathering, of sorts, to worship the cosmos. In another lifetime, we woulda been Druids ’neath the Henge.

My favorite part, besides the deepest, softest quiet that descended on the city, was the ice-cold breeze that kicked up when the eclipse peaked. In the movies, a wind like this would portend strange doings afoot—a wicked change of fate, otherworldly powers. In real life, it was just a brief blackout of life-giving Ultraviolet rays. Simple science. Unless ... ?