Eyes on the skies
Today I think I might have seen the most beautiful sunset ever. Sadly I was hampered with a only a very low quality image recorder (at least, the one with images that can be shared). I might have known it was coming since on the way to twilight I saw some of my most favorite clouds, high cirrus and cirrocumulus.
Seeing these types of clouds always seems to make me smile. Perhaps it comes from the sense of awe that they inspire … so high and far away, and seeming so wispy and delicate.
The natural world around us is filled with things of such beauty and wonder, if we only take a moment out of our busy lives to stop and stare we might decide that some of our “large problems” are actually small in comparison to world in which we live. A little perspective can be a good thing.
Follow along in your own mind’s eye as the cloud bottoms, surrounded by a darkening blue and purple sky, slide through the spectrum of glowing colors … white, to yellow, yellow to orange, orange to red, red to pink, dissolving into the backdrop and then reemerging in field of darkening white and grays over a deepening blue.
Sometimes it pays dividends to walk the world with eyes open and up.