Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Every sunset is deserving

Welcome, night
London, ON
February 2025
This photo originally shared on Instagram

A half-hour after the sun last showed itself here, I walk past the nearby park with our well bundled dog and wait by the tree while she buries her nose in the fresh snow.

Thanks to a clear sky, it isn’t a terribly spectacular scene, but I’m captivated by it, anyway, and decide to take a single photo before we continue on our way.

I toss it around in my mind all the way home, about the fact that I had decided to shoot a decidedly meh moment.

But the more I ponder, the more I realize it was never meh at all. Even the most plain skies, after all, are still worthy of attention, still worthy, period.

And we remember them not because they may have met some arbitrarily subjective metric of beauty. But because we get to experience them at all.

Because we miss a lot more than we gain by dismissing skies that don’t somehow qualify.

Because the number of skies in our lives isn’t limitless.

Because this isn’t just about skies.

Thank you for attending my TED Talk. I’ll be hanging out with the dog under the maple tree at the edge of the park all week.

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