Temporary lines in the sky

No, the government isn't spying on you
London, ON
September 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Cargo jets high over #LdnONT paint lines in the cloudy sky as they make their way toward the sea.

While their passenger-plane equivalents sit in desert storage depots, the long-haul heavies belonging to FedEx, UPS, Amazon and others are doing big business keeping the freight flying through the pandemic. It's another easily overlooked impact of this historic event, another not-so-subtle rewriting of the way we live now.

To most of us, assuming we look up at all, they're simply lines in the sky, mere streaks of condensation that'll be gone within seconds. So temporary they are that it's tempting to write them off entirely as just another easily disposable facet of day-to-day life.

But significance is never an absolute thing. And droplets of water hanging in loose formation thousands of feet in the air tell a story that already profoundly touches us all right here on the ground.

We just have to take the time to look, and think, and hope someday those same lines tell better stories than they do today.

I'll be watching. And hoping.

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