Total Eclipse

 

At our Florida home, the shuttle launches can be seen by a sighted person on a very clear night.

The neighbors gather around between our homes and watch the shuttle go up, all making comments about it, and I am usually looking in the wrong direction.

I have joined them for neighborly fellowship on almost every launch.

But one day there was another event that all the neighbors wanted to gather for.  That was a total eclipse of the moon at 11.05 pm.

We neighbors all agreed that we were going to again meet and watch it when it came time.

Right at 11 PM, I woke Diane for the big event, and said come on, let’s go watch the eclipse.  She got up, but couldn’t find her glasses.  So, I went out to meet everyone at the road.

None of the neighbors came out, and Diane couldn’t find her glasses until the eclipse was well over

I suddenly realized that I was the only one standing out in the middle of the road, watching this total eclipse, and thinking, “What’s wrong with this picture”?