It’s All One Sky
How can the sky hold so many multitudes in it?
I was on a sunset hike in the Mojave Desert on what started as a cloudy day, but later on, the clouds cleared a bit and the blue skies shyly said hello to the land and its inhabitants.
The clouds were scattered across the sky: heavy and dark in some places, wispy and bright in others. There was a range of colors — clear blue, pink, yellow, orange and dark gray — all decorating the same sky at the same moment.
It got me thinking about the multitudes that exist within the sky (and life), to paraphrase Walt Whitman’s quote. How could the sky carry in its womb so many hues and textures? I used to think that cloudy meant gray and dark; sunny meant blue and bright.
But watching today’s sunset changed my mindset. It made me come to terms with the reality that life is often laden with a range of emotions and circumstances. And sometimes all of that can happen in one moment. We may experience worry and wonder, regret and hope, challenges and gifts, darkness and light, clarity and confusion, joy and sorrow, all pairs (or triplets or quadruplets) coexisting at the same time.
