Rainbow Nights

September 28, 2015

“Mother Earth”

Joshua Tree 2005/2006

New Year’s Eve Day

I was so excited to see last night's eclipse (in a good spot for it, along the coast of Ecuador).

It was cloudy here, so I wasn't able to see it, but I went to the beach anyway to experience it.

Here is something I just wrote to another friend of mine (Rick Hoefer) about my indelible impressions from last night:

"How to put into words?"
It was a cloudy night here...I had the beach pretty much to myself (with a exception of a few passerby)...

I was listening to "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on my I pod (on repeat).

And though I couldn't see the eclipse, I was acutely aware of the the magic happening overhead,

Sort of like how the Divine works behind the scenes in our lives, whether or not we always perceive it .

And, especially as I waded into the ocean, feet firmly dug into the sand/Pachamama as I relished the life-giving waves washing over them,

...I felt (how to say this without sounding woo-woo?)....I felt a supernatural connection - an electricity of being totally connected to the the Universe and to each other.

And I was unexpectedly brought to my knees with gratitude.

As I sat on the shore afterwards, a bright/hazy light appeared on very low northwest ocean horizon.

I thought too low for it to be the moon, but also too bright to be lights from a fishing boat.

I was mesmerized. I kept rubbing my eyes as I watched it for awhile.

And then, I turned to look in another direction for a moment...and it was gone.

But it was there...the promise.

A night time rainbow.