i got to witness a miracle today
Dec. 14th, 2001 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aruanmaybe you're not aware of it, maybe you've never thought it particularly special, maybe you've never had the privilige, but today, i got to watch a day be born and laid to rest. i woke for my 7:30 exam at 5:30, and unable to go back to sleep i showered and drove to class. the closest red decal parking to the florida gym is the keys residential development, so i had to walk about half a mile to get to my destination. not a soul was about, the morning-to-be still as silent as the night while i walked eastward and watched the colors of the coming dawn play across the sky spread all above and ahead of me. got to watch black turn to navy, then stormy ocean blue. when the change quickened as the sun neared the horizon blues faded to reds to orange and finally the inexorable shade anticipation must have to those who can see it and then the sun was up, blinding in its radiance, as if it truly had gone to sleep and awakened with new gusto to outdo its previous day's performance.
that evening, at the same pace that it had begun, the whole process started over again as the sun sank lower and lower in the skies while i drove down the sawgrass expressway towards its fading glory. another day done, another change of shift so the moon can finish rounding out its events and accounting for its successes, failures, and laying doubts to rest for illumination by the light of a coming dawn. gently reassured that life is good as the sun seemingly smiled and winked as it disappeared below the horizon, i smiled and forged ahead to reach the welcoming arms of my mother and house full of holiday aromas and love.
that evening, at the same pace that it had begun, the whole process started over again as the sun sank lower and lower in the skies while i drove down the sawgrass expressway towards its fading glory. another day done, another change of shift so the moon can finish rounding out its events and accounting for its successes, failures, and laying doubts to rest for illumination by the light of a coming dawn. gently reassured that life is good as the sun seemingly smiled and winked as it disappeared below the horizon, i smiled and forged ahead to reach the welcoming arms of my mother and house full of holiday aromas and love.
