Totality

At the last minute, three of our five grandchildren made us an offer we could not refuse. Visiting from Atlanta, as did all our children and grandchildren, they and their parents (our son and daughter-in-law) stayed over Sunday evening to chase the eclipse into South Carolina Monday. So we joined them, drove north to the Botanical Gardens at Clemson, and made a memory with our family.

No photograph has yet captured the palpable, overwhelming eye candy of seeing the eclipse in totality. The corona undulated with diaphanous white light, pirouetting through space as if accompanied by the finale to Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.” With our heads angled toward the center of our solar system, we gazed transfixed at a cosmic singularity once feared by the ancients. Totality was total spiritual and soul-stirring wonder!

Driving south to Augusta when the fiery orb of the sun and the inert globe of the moon parted company, I found my imagination wondering about client totality. Keep reading.