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I love having experienced the
extremes of Arizona weather: radiant crystal nights at 20 below in crusted
snow, shimmering desert heat painful to breathe, sheets of illuminated
raindrops running in a multicolored curtain a mile long, sunsets under
thunderstorms, all the subtle changes and shifts of light in atmosphere.
The Sun Dog is weather
phenomenon that occurs in northern latitudes when the sun is low and
clouds bearing ice crystals are passing over the viewer. A Sun Dog or a
vague illusion of a sun appears on the horizon at 22 degrees either side
of the sun. Sometimes a light can be seen in a huge arc connecting the
two, and if the sun is high enough, it makes a ring around the sun
completely.
After
years of working with various models of describing our psychological
processes, I’ve been appreciating the weather as a model for examining
internal events and their sequences. The Sun Dog as a function of
perception marks the edges of a cone with its apex at the source of
insight. |
