Preventing a child from sitting in the rear seat next to the windows on an airplane should be made a crime. Curiosity is human nature. The earth is round, and how far does a normal person come close to witness that one simple fact? Only at an altitude of 43,000 feet aboard an airplane. Higher than the Everest. Above the land, the sea, the mountains, the skyscrapers, people. So small under, mingled in the terrain of what we all call home. Far on the horizon, earth meets the sky, the color spectrum shifting from a telluric brown to a muddled white which dispersed into various tones of blue upward. No longer on the ground, I felt like I was a separate entity and so was the earth, and a sense of belonging materialized from within. It was a bit of loneliness with a nip of pride, of courage with a sip of unspecified sorrow.
December 15, 2011
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Preventing a child from sitting in the rear seat next to the windows on an airplane should be made a crime. Curiosity is human nature. The earth is round, and how far does a normal person come close to witness that one simple fact? Only at an altitude of 43,000 feet aboard an airplane. Higher than the Everest. Above the land, the sea, the mountains, the skyscrapers, people. So small under, mingled in the terrain of what we all call home. Far on the horizon, earth meets the sky, the color spectrum shifting from a telluric brown to a muddled white which dispersed into various tones of blue upward. No longer on the ground, I felt like I was a separate entity and so was the earth, and a sense of belonging materialized from within. It was a bit of loneliness with a nip of pride, of courage with a sip of unspecified sorrow.
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