Solar Eclipse Totality

If your social feeds looked anything like mine at the beginning of April, then all you were seeing was information about the solar eclipse. Rick and Tom were aware it was coming because I requested the day off work two YEARS in advance. So you could say I was a little excited for the experience, and even more so to share it with my husband and daughter.

As this was my second eclipse, I knew a lot more about how to plan for it – getting to the path of totality, expectations for traffic, and bringing blankets for whatever field we’d end up in. We went to Vermont and had beautiful weather and a clear sky. Saoirse has been obsessed with the moon since discovering it a few months ago, and now a month post-eclipse she’s still talking about when the “moon tell sun go away”.

I heard the event described as, “Tanglewood, but for space” and that’s an accurate representation in my opinion. The kindness of strangers during this type of event is really a beautiful thing to witness. Everyone is cheering and we’re all on the same team, enjoying the best nature has to offer. And you have the best seat in the house as long as you’re in the path of totality. And I can’t stress this enough – 99.9% is almost the same as nothing. The real beauty only occurs at 100%.

Many that missed it and are experiencing FOMO (fear of missing out) after finding out the next one was not for 20 years, then I have good news for you. The longest one in our lifetime is going to be in 2027, for SIX minutes!

But hey – if you don’t feel like traveling, eventually the eclipse will be coming to those of us in Massachusetts… in 2079!