1742 Days

Totality in Chile.   684 days since Tennessee, so if trying to mark the time between Mexico or Texas, you'd be 28% of the way there.  Not bad, not bad at all.

Funny it should come up, today, after the thoughts yesterday about the new orientation for the MFA.  The focus on time.  OF COURSE the subject of the eclipse would need a chapter, in the Annie tradition, capturing so many tangents.  The fixed dates, the methods and certainty of prediction, ancient history, the shadow of the moon, syzygy, the temperature drop, the sharpness and unfamiliarity of the surroundings, the way the blackest of dots just "pops" into being...  how time moves within it.  2024 seems the surest thing.

Another random tangent - June 20, 2001 in Zambia mentioned, the first of the 21st century and a companion to the one today, whatever that means.  I have asked if it is recalled, and I wonder about the response.

Dr. Al asked about the PhD today, and then, like Amar, expressed skepticism about the marital status.  An excellent guy as always, sharp and I loved the hand-holding on their walk back to the boat.  It does make you wonder.  Start...  all... over... again...?  Ha.  Maybe.

There is so much to read, so much time to devote to it.  Crystal is their cruise of choice.  I wonder about that.  A(nother) way around the world yet?