End of days or is it the beginning of days?
When we were sitting on the beach in Zahara de los Atunes, we looked up at the 2:00 pm sun and saw this incredible phenomenon. The sun was surrounded by a dark black circle and surrounding the darkness was a beautiful rainbow. This phenomenon I later learned is called a solar halo and it was eery in the sense of awe and wonder and also had many of us questioning if it were the end of days (which gives you a clue into how many of us were feeling).
Later, someone was repeating the story to another and said, it was so eery it felt like the beginning of a new world – talk about lost in translation – or seeing the glass half full.
My favorite retelling of the story happened in Tangiers when my Spanish friend told her friends that it happened in the morning (it was 2PM – morning for Spaniards).
Whatever it was, it was a phenomenon, rarely seen and precious to behold, and it made us all stop and notice.
