It’s my birthday. My gift to myself is to indulge my inclination to share with you my reflections on having seen an absolutely gorgeous total eclipse in Northern New Hampshire on Monday.
It is impossible to describe just exactly what totality looked like. Even the best pictures and videos do not capture it, both in the literal sense of what it really looked like and the visceral sense of what it felt like to see it. The difference between 99% and 100% goes way beyond anything about the magnitude of it. They are completely different phenomena. A 99% eclipse is one thing, and a cool one. Totality is a completely different event, and a transformative experience. I get it. It didn’t disappoint. It exceeded everything I’d hoped it might be.
So, if you want to hear me rambling enthusiastically about the beauty of a total solar eclipse for seven minutes, click above!
I do hope some of you were able to see totality as well. If you did, please feel free to share your thoughts and experiences. I’ll open up the Comments section to everyone on this one!
Okay, that’s it! I’ll be back later in the week with normal Inside Medicine dispatches.
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Your local eclipse convert,
Jeremy
Seven minutes of me talking about the eclipse.