• Personal Reflections - Religion

    Here Then Gone: The Short Half-Life of Ecstatic Moments

     It was one of those Moments. The daylight waning, the sky a magnificent stew of cirrus wisps both vertical and horizontal to the west and south, stratus puff balls north and east, the trending-toward-full moon already up and peeking from behind the latter. At that still-point dusky moment transitioning from day to early eve, with the world perfectly poised between its in- and out-breath, the color palette of pale oranges, golds, purples, pinks, magentas and more seemed both fathomless and intoxicating. And then came the geese. They were in their classic extended V formation, winging southwest towards their home in…