Dawn Breaks Over Hong Kong

"Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves."
(Leonora Carrington)

Apropos to my present condition as I struggle to recover from jet lag, this shot of the sun emerging from the clouds over Hong Kong harbor had to be today's Blip!

It's always a bit surreal to wake up on the harbor after our long trips around the globe. One moment we're sitting on our deck in Corning listening to the quiet and absorbing the green, the next we're sipping wine in a busy café on Wyndham Street in Hong Kong watching the traffic go by and listening to people chattering in accents from all over the world! It's surreal, but wonderful, and always keeps us on our toes!

Speaking of staying on our toes, here are two more entries from the East Coast Dash Diaries to catch you up on the events of the past month. Thank goodness for the camera - it insured I didn't miss a moment of the Dash, which was particularly jam-packed this time around!

June 8th - Graduation Day
June 9th - Wolf Trap

We head out to Zhongshan tomorrow, so I'll enjoy my brief glimpse of the harbor today. These streaks of sunlight always make me wonder if the angels are beckoning souls into heaven, lighting their way with long shards of light and welcoming them into a brilliance just out of sight above the clouds. Four years ago this morning, 9:42pm back home, my mom took just such a journey up the shards of light and into the heavens. Perhaps today's spectacular dawn over the harbor is her way of letting me know that all is OK and she's just fine, that no matter how dense the cloud cover there's always a brilliant light shining bright and true beyond, that life continues, the angels are still hard at work, and that she will never forget us, just as we will never forget her.

After last night's spectacular ride in, the clouds certainly have a deeper meaning to me this morning; now I know just how impatient the sun is to break through the low-hanging gray to shine brilliantly on the water, longing to wake the world and propel us into motion as dawn breaks over Hong Kong.

"Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world."
--- Alfred Jarry