Just a glance at this vast illumination showed me how hard light has to hustle to deliver our individual realities.
Blasting along at 186,282 miles a second, rays from the sun setting behind me averaged just 8 minutes 22.6 seconds to cross the 93,478,000 miles needed to warm by back, then graze the church walls and roof, bathe its steeple, caress the clouds, streak on to the moon above, and finally, carry that celestial orb’s reflected glow back to my eyes and iPhone camera. And along the way, the sun’s rays also dropped off enough illumination for someone inside the dark church to find and flick switches for its electric lamps.
All in under 9 minutes.
Nothing in this existence works harder than light. The bringer of much experience.
–Dave Powell is a Westford, Mass., writer and avid amateur photographer.
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