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goobster  ·  2662 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your goals for 2017?

Fantastic plan. I love it.

I got to watch a massive, middle-of-the-day solar eclipse from my little vacation house rental on Lake Balaton in Hungary, back in the late 1990's, early 2000's. (Don't remember the exact date.)

And I got to see an amazing lunar eclipse at Burning Man in 2007.

There is a point during the eclipses when that flat shiny disc in the sky stops being a disc and becomes ...

LIZARD BRAIN: HOLYFUCKTHATENORMOUSBALLISHANGINGUPTHEREINTHESKY. OHMYGODIAMSOSMALLANDTHISISSOAMAZING!!

I've never felt my "lizard brain" so viscerally, as I have during an eclipse. Just so amazing...