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Thinking of the phrase “just in time.” As in: I stopped just in time, I looked up just in time, I picked up the phone just in time. “Just in time” to: Avoid an accident; see a hummingbird at the feeder; to be there when a friend called. Not always a race with time, but a meshing of two toothed gears, suddenly engaging in the present moment.

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I've been present just in to see : Lightning flashes, jets leaving trails ( does NOBODY look at jets anymore ? ) Seagulls blown off - course to the middle US & possibly Canada, full moons peeking out from cloud cover. I realize that such moments can only live again in memory.

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I look at jets! And I look at the clouds and the birds flying too! : )

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I still wonder where the people onboard are going, where they've been, whether they were traveling on business, to see loved ones, things like that.

It's part of our heritage to look up, & perhaps to aspire.

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So do I! I especially love contrails at sunset in an otherwise clear sky; white pelicans floating across the dark blue with slow motion wing beats; the voluminous thunderheads in early summer, multicolored and full of constant lightning...so much beauty, and all we have to do is look up.

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I even saw a drone at least twice. Those are an item not normally seen.

Seriously, I've watched a lot of lunar AND solar eclipses & at least one meteor shower that was a very unusual experience, pre - internet.

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It's interesting that those serendipitous moments only occur when you stop trying to make Good Things happen and just follow the thread where it wants to take you.

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That "meshing of two toothed gears" feels good when it happens!

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Yes. That meshing of time and place in our awareness.

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