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Celestial Sailing




by Stan Mott





One extraordinary experience while crossing the Atlantic was to hang over the bow at night and observe it crashing through tropical water creating turquoise explosions. It was bioluminescent plankton. The explosions occurred about every 8 seconds, when wind and seas would fetch up the hull to surge forward and heave down. The best looked as if I was high up in some celestial balcony, with God creating a new Universe down there every 8 seconds, blasting out glowing turquoise explosions, each uniquely dazzling! It was genuinely hypnotic, and I spent hours out there enjoying it. I later tried to illustrate it with inks and dyes. No good. I would need great time and effort to learn how to do it with computer graphics--to ever come close to the reality I saw. It was definitely the sort of epiphany that changes the molecules around in your brain...and leaves you smiling.




copyright 2017 Stan Mott