Conversations...

Man! Talk about wanting to learn something each day! I just had a conversation with the girl sitting next to me on the plane - definitely not a chance meeting - she's a nurse too!


Here are some great quotes I found in random literature on the flight:


"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing" - Helen Keller


"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones that you did do...explore, dream, discover." - Mark Twain


Later as I tried to sleep for an hour or so...


Man! What a way to wake up! I hate sleeping on the plane because it's so ridiculously awkward but I woke up to the simple fact that the midnight blue that had dominated my window for the past six hours had transformed - there was color in the sky! I assumed the sun had already risen so I looked away for a second - a mere second - then turned back to face a miracle. There -- along that far horizon, a ball of hot orange light popped up as if it had been holding its breath beneath the expanse of the Atlantic.That tiny bob shattered the never-ending blue of night and turned the entire sky into God's stained glass window. Out along the line of the sea was now an inky maroon that gave way to the intense red of a blood orange that shot its tendrils across the sky. Then, ever softly, the red bled into strokes of bright tangerine that just by looking at it made me smell the crispness of an orange being shared or the honey sweetness of a mango on my tongue. This gave way to the happy yellow of day so bright and beautiful that it chased away the navy of night like a child slowly stirring out of slumber. Before long, the telltale baby blue of morning had yawned over the sky and the sun, once so powerful it set my skin on orange fire had now pulled on a sheer blanket of wispy clouds and instead left its whisper in the trail of fire it set upon the water.


I've never seen a sunrise so fully before and being almost at eye level with it is truly magical. There's something about being up here in the sky that sets the bird in me soaring with freedom. What a way to start the day!