Open Your Eyes
Yesterday we were lucky enough to spot what I later discovered to be a circumhorizontal arc, which lasted for all of 5 minutes. It felt like a gift from Mother Nature herself on a day just for mothers. This is not my photo (can you believe I was without my camera for one second), but close to what we saw:
As we stood watching it from the parking lot of the park, people were coming and going in all directions around us - unaware of what was going on in front of them. I wanted to shout, "Hey, obliviots! Stop moving and look up for crying out loud!" But I refrained.
Maybe I should have yelled. Maybe some people need to be snapped out of their tunnel vision haze in this age of technology. I've literally seen people on their laptops with Bluetooth in their ear and web cams affixed to their monitors while their kids are learning sports on Saturdays. It makes me very curious to know what is so important that they can't leave home without being "hooked up" when they probably haven't seen their kids all week. Are they cracking a terrorist plot on Twitter? Are they on the verge of the cure for swine-flu on WebMD? Are they rescuing orphans in Somalia via their Facebook page? I'm so tempted to loom over their shoulders to see what it could possibly be.
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, but more and more it seems to get in the way.
And it's not that I'm a helicopter parent, hovering over Steven to make sure all his needs are met. That is equally annoying. But I do take time to show him the world around us, whether it's a couple hundred ants building a nest, a twig floating downstream, or strange colors in the wispy clouds. Things that just aren't the same on YouTube.
