Monday, May 20, 2024

The Northern Lights I Did Not See

"…I felt small, which I expected to feel, and untroubled by my smallness, which I did not. Standing beneath the open sky, pondering an event that was happening so far away as to be incomprehensible, reminded me again of my own infinitesimal role within a system whose magnificence even the most brilliant of my kind can understand in only the meagerest measure — if only briefly, such moments have a way of making my earthly worries seem more manageable…" 

—Margaret Renkl

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/aurora-borealis-south-beauty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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