Total Eclipse: A Rearview Review of Rhythms
Before: the sense of everyone gathering for some cosmic event, like the landing of an alien spaceship (maybe like those people waiting for the spaceship they thought was traveling in the tail of the Comet Hale-Bop?). During: a sense of the world gone horribly wrong—the most fundamental things about the world out of whack—the light, the colors, the seasons, especially day and night…. But setting out from Chicago, the ‘During’ was yet to come. Following the cycles laid down by planetary motions as our solar system developed, there’s a total solar eclipse somewhere on Earth every 18 months. And we’ve […]