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| Painting the sky Boca Raton, FL February 2023 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
22 minutes after the sun has slipped beneath the horizon for the night.
One minute before twilight officially ends.
I’m standing on a hotel deck. Bizarrely shaped clouds paint thick, undulating strips across the still-blazing sub-tropical sky.
Somewhere between here and far away, a single aircraft flies toward an unknown destination.
I hope whoever is on-board is looking out the window.
I hope they’re as moved by the sight of all this as I am.
I hope more of us, in the air or on the ground or wherever, get to stop what we’re doing on occasion so we can be wowed by seemingly trivial moments like these.
It’s just a sunset, some might say. It happens every night. Same old, same old.
But never again like this one. Not with this light, these clouds, and a certain tiny-looking metallic tube filled with strangers making its way through the surreal scene.
Nothing remotely trivial about them.
Whatever the show between here and far away may look like, we only get so many of them while we’re here.
So we look up and ignore the some-might-say folks.
All of this is probably lost on them, anyway.
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