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[Shortpoet-GTD]

Hoping that people that witness this once in a lifetime event will realize that the #Earth is
a just a great rock in space
BUT
our great rock is the ONLY planet
capable of sustaining life. (Or at least within our reach at this time)
So we must protect it. Cherish it. Help preserve it's beauty by not trashing it.


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[still learning]

Saw the totality in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.  Among the Ponderosa pines and under the clear sky, this "bucket list" event was more than worth the travel.  Words cannot properly describe the experience.  It is, of course, just the Moon passing in front of the Sun, and that maybe is enough to describe a partial eclipse, which I've seen several of.  The experience if watching totality is of a different order than watching a partial eclipse though.  Rationally, it's not that much different, but during totality some pieces of rationality are kind of suspended.  Words fail.  Maybe a poet could come up with the words.