One of those images that burn into
one's brain, exciting the imagination.
Amsterdam-bound from Delhi, India.
Night.
From the window of KLM 37,000 feet
high.
When I should have been sleeping.
A brilliant, clear crossing of the
globe; incredibly distant, other-worldly, noiseless.
I'm floating, unseen between a universe
of sky stars above and land stars below.
What caught me: a perfect imprint of
the Black Sea in the dark, rimmed with the lights of cities and towns
where a million people were doing their evening things ―
eating, talking, putting the kids to bed, laughing, loving, worrying,
arguing, praying, sleeping ―
unaware of a benign silent observer.
Impossible to photograph those moments
and almost impossible to find a duplicate of what I saw, but NASA
somewhat obliged after the fact:
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| The (unfortunately small) crop |
The original NASA photograph:
The
Black Sea has always had a magic appeal for me. Celestially
reinforced. Sheer heaven.
