This is truly a drop-everything, forget-work, take-out-a-pen-and-pencil, sit-on-the-konde (patio) -and-stare, type of night.
A wide road of silver light undulates gently as it leads to the solid, dark wall that is the far horizon. The edge of the earth, lit by periodic flashes of startling red.
The gentle crash of waves. The rhythmic hum of crickets.
The swaying silhouettes of branches, leaves, trunks. Black against the varied shades of gray that provide their backdrop.
A painting, touched by delicate traces of life.
And above it all, that fluorescent white orb. So strong here! Uninhibited. No competition with lights of any kind, its natural radiance shines through pure and innocent.
Here I sit, desperate to capture the scene in photographs, words, drawings that my clumsy fingers are incapable of producing. Why? For whom? For me?
No, for everyone.
Everyone I wish was here to share it with me.
I could not ask for more than I have found in this place, and I am so thankful for all the wonderful welcomes and new friends.
But oh, how you would love it! How we would dance and sing and sip cool drinks under this moon! Letting that healing white light force us to forget the petty everyday and simply bask in the magic of this scene. Of being together, at such a moment in time.
A wide road of silver light undulates gently as it leads to the solid, dark wall that is the far horizon. The edge of the earth, lit by periodic flashes of startling red.
The gentle crash of waves. The rhythmic hum of crickets.
The swaying silhouettes of branches, leaves, trunks. Black against the varied shades of gray that provide their backdrop.
A painting, touched by delicate traces of life.
And above it all, that fluorescent white orb. So strong here! Uninhibited. No competition with lights of any kind, its natural radiance shines through pure and innocent.
Here I sit, desperate to capture the scene in photographs, words, drawings that my clumsy fingers are incapable of producing. Why? For whom? For me?
No, for everyone.
Everyone I wish was here to share it with me.
I could not ask for more than I have found in this place, and I am so thankful for all the wonderful welcomes and new friends.
But oh, how you would love it! How we would dance and sing and sip cool drinks under this moon! Letting that healing white light force us to forget the petty everyday and simply bask in the magic of this scene. Of being together, at such a moment in time.
so beautiful.
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