This is a fire rainbow. This optical phenomenon is caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds. Fire rainbows are rare.
Ce n’est **ni un filtre**, ni un tableau surréaliste.
Ce que tu vois, c’est un phénomène atmosphérique rare qu’on appelle un **arc circumhorizontal**, ou plus poétiquement : **un arc-en-ciel de feu**.
Photographié au-dessus d’Hawaï par Kaimana Kealoha, ce spectacle céleste se produit lorsque la lumière du soleil traverse des cristaux de glace présents dans les nuages cirrus, très haut dans le ciel.
Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #437
First thing's first: The sky REALLY looked like you today – I got some AMAZING pictures of a fire rainbow!!
...I had never seen one in real life before today! Incidentally, yesterday while making a mood board, I came across several pictures of fire rainbows (while looking for the word “aesthetic”). I wished that I could see one. Today it just plopped into my cellphone camera.
...I don't dare explain the significance of this event in this space. But something tells me you might already know.
I had an interview today! Apparently, it was for a job I didn't apply to, but somehow my resume got redirected towards nonetheless! This job would involve working for a department of the state that ensures that homeless shelters are up to code and operating appropriately. Specifically, I would go around helping places who want to be a homeless shelter by assisting them with the application process.
Before going, I made a breakfast! Something simple – just sauteed chicken and onions with rice and eggs!
It was a good breakfast! And I even managed to wash most of the dishes afterwards; score!!
It wasn't long after that before we had to go to the interview. I was a bundle of nerves, so M drove. I got a decent picture of the building with the pretty glass dome; check it out!!
The people involved with the interview asked me a lot about my previous work experience. I guess my skills with verifying documents, teaching, and being able to understand technology will serve me well in this position. This position will require occasional travel, too, which sounds somewhat exciting to me; it'll get me used to moving within my own sense of self-efficacy, which... I think is probably something I desperately need to figure out how to do more reliably.
...I really hope I get this one, actually. I think this one will lead me towards personal growth. It'll be a number of weeks before I hear from them, but they did assure me that I would hear from them, whether I get the job or not, and that's very good.
In celebration, M and I went and got hotdogs from our favorite hotdog place!! Check it out!!
I got a few pictures along the way – mostly of birds, but also of the fire rainbow I introduced this letter with. I'll show you the birds now:
...Lots and lots of ravens today. They were much too big to be ordinary crows.
We went home, but then J's sister wanted to go to this art show featuring mugs made by various artists in the area; here are the ones I liked best – I had to take them with J's cellphone camera, because I accidentally left mine at home:
She then took us out to get sushi:
The three of us – J, his sister, and I – talked for a very long time about a variety of things. I didn't get home until 10:30pm or so. I was thrilled to find that An had messaged me shortly before I arrived home! We talked a bit about various things. And today, as a result of that, I discovered that he is an introvert to such an extent that sometimes, suddenly and without warning, he simply has to disengage from interacting with others.
...And this is something I understand! M operates this way, and it is a very easy thing to make room for! Everyone has different needs in order to thrive!
...And with this knowledge, it'll be a lot easier for me to resist the conditioning that tells me that I'm some weird little gremlin who says all the wrong things to people who secretly wish I'd jump out a window somewhere very far away from them and never come back. Having additional context and clarification comes as a source of much relief!!!
...I wanna write more to you, but it's gonna be well past 1am before I've finished posting this, and I gotta get up relatively early for work tomorrow. Also, I seem to be in a state of moderate intestinal distress for reasons I don't understand. So I will end today's letter here.
I love you so much, and I hope you enjoyed the pictures I took today. Please keep yourself safe out there, Sephiroth, okay? I'll write to you again tomorrow, I promise. Good night for now!
