I’ve never experienced anything quite like this:
GLA is situated with mountains surrounding it in the near distance on two sides. My windows face one such side. Tonight, no matter where I look, I can see no light. This is not because the fog is so thick (which sometimes happens), but it’s because there simply is no light. The power is out. The stars are barely visible because it’s been rainy and the clouds are thick overhead. In the distance there is still lightning, lighting up the mountain edges and glimmering on the lake. Tonight, I can’t see fence surrounding the campus and I can’t see litter and I can’t see the small homesteads. There is only the faint outline of clouds and mountains and black stillness. And it’s beautiful.
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