I feel emotional after seeing this meteorite footage. The video I found online is so pixellated and yet so lovely. Why is seeing this impactful to me?
Perhaps because it was a relatively small and peaceful meteorite cascading across rural Iowa. Randomly it was caught on some lonely security camera. Here is an historic event, soon forgotten, quietly punctuating or perhaps bringing-in a startling series of earth changes world wide. Lot's of people witnessed it. Yet, no one was hurt. It is a sign of wonder and hope, a mini wake-up call or warning. I'll take it as a message to pay attention to the sky.
Just since the new year, there have been a hand full of major earthquakes around the world, and now a volcanic eruption in Iceland, which put European flights out of commission for days.
Just this winter we were in Florida. Unusally, it was too cold to sunbath. . .the local media responded: we read humorous interviews on local media asking Floridians if they believe in global warming? of course, all of them--freezing their asses off--said it's all a load of crap. . .long live capitalism, etc, etc.
Ho hum, many around me are in a daze. I'll go back to Georgia soon, where it is so sleepy and out of touch, hiding under the magnificent dark trees and spirit of Southern denial. There's really so very little analysis on the news at all. . .
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