Eclipse of the Heart

On April 8, 2024, we had a solar eclipse.

It was weird because it was the first time I had been in a solar eclipse and in totality.

Totality is when the moon almost blocks out the sun and it gets nighttime dark where you are.

It was fun, interesting, bizarre, emotional, and I got to share it with my kids.

It felt weird because it made me get emotional, I mean, it's a scientific fact that eclipses will happen and have happened, they're not that big of a deal, but...

It made me feel small (in a good way) and I wondered what people a thousand years ago must have felt without the knowledge we have today.

But it has happened, it did happen, and will happen again in the future and it's not some cosmic special event, but it is something that showed the perfection and fine tuning of our world, of our universe, of our lives.

It was beautiful and humbling and if I am old enough again in 20 years, I am going to try and make it to totality again.

 

(above is 3:14 PM in the afternoon, just south of Brownstown Indiana)