Sunrise from 30,000 feet is incredible. It started as a bright red glow that wrapped more than halfway around the horizon (had we been aimed toward the sun, I would have been able to see it out of the windows on both sides). The red glow grew into a thick band of gold and orange and the light kept pouring in. With a flat horizon and sunrise as far as the eye can see, it's the magnitude of this event that gets me. It's amazing to think that this happens every morning, everywhere. And the sun is always rising so really it's just this incomprehensibly huge tide of light flooding across the planet, unstoppable, at hundreds of miles an hour.
We're tidepool creatures. When the tide is high, we are suffused. Active, free, and nutritious too—we drink the vitamins with our skin. At low tide, we can see the stars. When the water first pours into our pools each cycle, and when it trickles out at last, it's kind of magical...
As the tide continues to rise, its light catches on the rippling expanse of wet cloud between me and the atlantic ocean. The bible talks about the waters below and the waters above... I don't think I ever really got that—the water's above part, I mean—until now.
Finally, the queen herself emerges. Slowly, heralded by a shining cloud above. Naked and dripping. Glory.
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tide pool creatures that travel! You guys will be drinking Sun Glory while we're basking in Starlight over this side of the planet...but thanks to this blog...we get to kinda sorta share your tide pool with you just a little bit!...keep the story flowing, Boo, I, for one, am lovin it. Love Mom
You should write erotica.
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