I just got home from a beautiful and extraordinary event, hosted by Maria Popova of Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) fame. It was a night of science and poetry and a little music and a lot of eclipse anticipation and somehow the way it all came together was enough to make a person weep.

It was one of those nights where you realize what a tiny miniscule amount of knowledge you really possess but instead of feeling dumb, you just feel awestruck.

We are in the path of totality tomorrow. We don’t know if it will be too cloudy to see the subtle shifting of the eclipse over time. We don’t know if we’ll be standing in the spring heat or the soaking rain. We don’t know what the birds will do when it grows dark, or the dogs, or the babies. We don’t know anything, really. Isn’t it amazing?

What must the moon think
on the eve of the eclipse
all of us, watching

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