A view from 30,000 feet… Pondering: I am here now

On a plane from Seattle to San Diego, I look out the window and see small hill-like formations in the ground, rising like blemishes on evergreen skin. Two blue lakes form eyes in this face and a patch of ragged ground outlines the nose. The side of a curving cliff completes the skull’s grin in this palette of earthy green.I am here now.