October 2, 2006 ~ Sunset/Sunrise

The thing about a sunset...

is that it's always followed by a sunrise...

On a one day trip to Monterey this past July...on the hottest day of the year...during the longest stretch of a heat wave we've ever had...it occured to me that my children had never seen a sunset over the horizon. Sure, they'd seen it over the roof of the house across the street....or setting between rolling hills on a car trip....

but seeing the sunset at the ocean is completely different.

You can feel the roundness of our earth, the smallness of our world, and the vastness of life continuing...

As the sun says goodnight to us.....there is something good in knowing that it is saying good morning to those just around the bend of our shared world...

And, hopefully, the gentle rose colors of sunset and sunrise will bring peace...

At least some...

And it will be a start.