I'm flying between San Antonio and Atlanta right now and I have the window seat facing south. I just happened to look up from my book and see the beauty that is the sunset, a scene that spreads miles across the sky. The prism of darkness of blue in the east into the blood orange sky in the west amazes me. A perfect separation of light and dark.

I don't know if I've ever really looked at a sunset horizontally, but it is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. And as I keep trying the look back behind the plane from my window, the darkness overcomes the light, though a flicker of orange fights through. But in a moment it is gone, and the peacefulness of the night sky reveals the illuminations of our own invention below as active cities, a fork in the road, or a cluster of homes to come home to.

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