by Jason Snell
David Pogue on the solar eclipse
David Pogue saw the eclipse in Tennessee:
When I looked up, though, my heart raced. The intensity, the dazzling colors, the freakishness of that sight—a jet-black hole where the sun should be! I’m not a touchy-feely person by any stretch, but this was a spiritual experience; I was so moved, and I could tell that my sons were, too. I could easily see why ancient civilizations assumed that some god or mystic force was responsible for total eclipses.
David’s experience almost exactly matches mine.