TOTAL ECLIPSE.

There are many days where we feel humble in the presence of mother nature, but this one felt particularly ripe. It's easy to get mired down in the day-to-day of work, politics, and / or conflicts with family, friends, or coworkers - or even obsessed with your favorite television show - until you watch the magic show that mother nature performs.

In such a vast universe, it seems impossible that the moon could eclipse the sun. Our tiny little moon is about 400 times smaller than the sun, but because it happens to be 400 times closer to the Earth, the small manages to eclipse what is so much larger for a few brief minutes. 

Solar eclipses visible from solid land - let alone the particular patch of land that we inhabit on this enormous planet - do not happen every day, but the fact that they happen at all seems like pure magic to us. And they serve as a reminder that each part of the system that makes up life on earth, no matter how big or small, has its moment in the sun. 

Taylor viewed the partial eclipse up in New York state, while Dorothy flew south to Charleston, SC to experience the totality. In between sun gazing from her perch on a hill overlooking the Rip Van Winkle bridge, Taylor watched as a stream of cars kept passing to and fro, never pausing. It occurred to her that many folks were just going about their daily business. Many other fellow park-goers were ambling about, but Taylor and her cohort were the only ones with special glasses to view the event (we were happy to share with those interested - and there were many who took us up on it). Perhaps because it was only a partial eclipse, it was easy not to notice its significance. So close to the magic, yet so far. But you can't always find what you're not looking for.

Down south it was a different story. Thousands of people lined up on the beach to wish away the heavily overcast clouds of the morning, and watch the waves crash in from the Atlantic ocean. It was just as the moon pushed through the last crescent of the sun that the clouds parted, and cheers went up as everyone put down their glasses to safely look into the sun's hiding place for just two short minutes. In the relative darkness, Dor and her family ran whooping and hollering into the ocean, overcome by the miraculous quality of seeing an average day in a completely different light. 

To the magic in all things,

Taylor & Dorothy
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