One afternoon while I was working aboard the MS Dawn Princess, I'd just finished teaching my afternoon classes. My Mother was sailing with me that cruise and she came to join me for Dinner. As we made for the elevator on the promenade deck, I noticed several people pouring out the door onto the deck, gawking. I looked out to the horizon above them and saw an impossible sight. The sea was perfectly calm and made of spun glass and the sun set all around us, thick, like a cloud of crystal sugar. Light pink and fluffy golden.
While we stood on the promenade deck of the MS Dawn Princess, awestruck by the event horizon happening all around us, my Mother asked me why I didn't run to go and get my camera. I replied that by the time I came back we would have sailed out of the anomaly. So I stayed put and looked and observed. It wasn't without regret. What I wouldn't give now to have a photo of that moment! I have never, never seen anything like it again.
I have touched the sky and kissed it’s intangibility. I have sailed a line through a world made of polished, mirrored sea, where the water met the air in a haze of pinks and oranges so thick that one could scoop streaks into them by simply reaching out to do it.
Another Beautiful event at sea. 3am in the Baltic.
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