Sunrise

I got a late start to work today. The alarm clock never rang.

So I had to navigate the busy school crossing down the block with the kids and the crossing guards and the parents and the SUVs. And by the time I got on the freeway, it was a parking lot.

As the traffic crawled along, I listened to the radio and gazed out the window and noticed that the sky was ablaze.

Shards of cloud hung in the eastern sky, illuminated in shifting hues of fading lavender and exploding electric pink. The bottom reaches of the clouds burned with a white hot light that I would not have thought possible, for the sun was not yet up.

Wait. The sun was not up? I was late, and the sun was not up?

And just then, as I came over the crest of the hill and began my decent to the river, I saw a bright orange-red dome rising over the eastern horizon.

I was late, and the sun was just coming up.

And what a sunrise it was!

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