Total Eclipse at Clarity House
Everyone knows what a total eclipse looks like – until they see one.
Then you discover that like the Awakeness from which it springs,
it’s much, much more than memory, imagination, or film can hold.
It cannot be digitized.
And the feel of it!
So primal and powerful, so visceral,
both deliciously terrifying and incredibly humbling.
After it came the shadow of the moon upon the earth.
It washed over my yard, and my next-door neighbor’s,
crossed over the street, swept across another yard,
until it was lost to me as it jumped a privacy fence.
August 22, 2017 @ 3:58 pm
It was weird for a few minutes yesterday afternoon way over here in Iowa, so I imagine it must have been quite the experience at your place!
<3 Kathleen
August 23, 2017 @ 7:37 am
Amazing description!! We had a non event here in RI. The most noticeable were the birds chirping with great excitement, astonishment, wonderment?
August 24, 2017 @ 2:34 pm
Through these eyes, gaseous nebula, open clusters, and globular clusters have been seen. So too the rings of Saturn and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. And Venus hanging brightly in the evening and morning sky. And the planet Mercury hugging the sun early twilight. The Milky Way and the great Rift, along with the Magellanic Clouds have appeared overhead as reminders of the vastness of this universe. Distant galaxies have been viewed through telescopes. These eyes have seen Haley’s comet, Comet Hale Bopp, and Comet Hyakutaki as well as countless meteors, meteor showers, and even one fantastic meteor storm. These eyes have seen annular eclipses and photos of total solar eclipses
But never have these teary eyes witnessed anything as exquisitely transcendent and majestic, as profoundly mystical and mind-stopping, or as deeply felt viscerally and emotionally as the jewel that appeared in the sky during totality yesterday (viewed from the mountains of Idaho)!
August 24, 2017 @ 3:03 pm
Amen.
August 29, 2017 @ 6:43 pm
I was just walking into the gym when all these folks were standing outside with those special glasses. Wow! The naked eye with sunglasses nada, put those special glasses on, phenomenonal experience.