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   Joseph Andriano (josephandriano@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 16:52:11 JST Joseph Andriano

   I looked into the heart of the sun. I saw a 360 degree sunset. I saw the mountains of the moon. I saw stars during the day and Venus shining beside the sun and the moon.

   A few moments before totality everything got still. The mourning doves and insects went quiet. The light wasn’t like a sunset, it didn’t have that angle to it. It was just grey and ghostly. The high clouds made the light very white and grey, making you feel like you were in a shadow world. #Eclipse #Vermont #Eclipse2024 1/2

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     Joseph Andriano (josephandriano@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 16:52:16 JST Joseph Andriano

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     I can barely explain what I experienced during totality. It was far more emotional that I realized to stand in the shadow of the moon and stare up like that, looking at the sun. I wandered around in a daze, looking at everything.

     Afterwards I felt hungover, confused. I still do.

     I’ve read about how people say total solar eclipses are life altering. I never knew why.

     Now I do.

     #Eclipse #Vermont #Eclipse2024 2/2

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     Katanova, the Lucent Nomad (katanova@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 16:52:38 JST Katanova, the Lucent Nomad

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     In a field in central Oregon in 2017, I waited along with dozens of other people.

     For just a few moments, the whole world came into focus, in relief. Like the moment after a camera flashes.

     I felt the temperature drop 20 degrees, and for just a moment, all these impossibly distant celestial bodies were suddenly real to my life in a way they weren't before

     The whole world was suddenly real

     I noticed the sun starting to peak out, and I shouted to everyone around, "glasses on!"

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     Katanova, the Lucent Nomad (katanova@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 16:52:44 JST Katanova, the Lucent Nomad

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     And then it was over.

     I didn't have anywhere to be, no pressing matters to return to.

     Instead of joining all the traffic fleeing the suddenly unremarkable lands, I sat there for a bit with my partner.

     That field, that partner, the car I drove there in, they're all long distant parts of my past.

     That feeling of reality, of the world at once coming into focus through paradoxical distance and quiet, that's a feeling I still search for.

     I've only found it a few times.