So what is a person to do when every sunset is perfect? I realized tonight as I was walking from my sister's house to our family home that the sunset was once again a perfect sunset. My impulse was to dash into the house and grab my sister's digital camera and to capture yet another perfect sunset.
But of course I was immediately struck by the absurdity of the situation. I would be like Sisyphus who instead of pushing a stone up a hill would be capturing each sunset in its perfection. But to what point. Sunsets must be experienced firsthand because they are markers to the approaching end of each day. Time is not linear. When Sir Sanford Fleming invented Standard Time he unravelled the thread of unitary time into 24 separate strands each in its own continuum.
So any sunset I could record could only matter to those who witnessed the very same event. For only they travel on this thread that leads me across the fabric of time and space.
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