March 22, 2006 - Isla Mujeres, Mexico

Flying by

I read somewhere that the earth rotates at a speed of 1000 miles per hour. The way we physically (don't) perceive this can be compared to being a passenger sitting still inside a moving car, while the landscape that seems to fly by us consists of the alternating sun, moon and stars. We feel like we're stationary rather than moving at the speed of the vehicle, only our ride on vehicle earth is much smoother than your average trip inside a noisy, bumpy car. When I think of the earthquakes, tidal waves, storms and other natural phenomena that occur under and over our proverbial hood, I'm not so sure about that, but this is what I read...

I started this journal a year ago today.

Yesterday the stretch of daytime landscape we collectively travelled was once again equal in length to our nighttime passage. The spring equinox has come and gone for the 35th time since I first caught my ride on this planet, and the speed of time is dawning on me a little more with each rotation around the sun. Though I've had quite the stormy year, I feel like I wrote that first journal entry just yesterday. Man, are we ever going fast.

posted by Mahi at 1:10 AM  

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