Once In A Lifetime #1

Everyone should make a list of important things from their lives. This is the first entry of many to come in the posts of amazing sites and experiences that have meaning to me. 
   As I sat at a table in a Chinese restaurant I noticed a monarch butterfly sailing toward the windows that lined an entire wall. A few more caught my eye and because they were flying over a concrete parking lot and had sailed over the street beyond, a seemingly fruitless flight path, it piqued my interest.  Then it became apparent that they had been fluttering through an old tree line - a thin line stretching several city blocks back from  the concrete and bustle. As I watched, the few became dozens and the dozens hundreds and then a breathtaking thousands of thousands of monarchs filled the air! I was watching a migration! It was majestic! They literally filled the entire globe of my vision! They flew each in its own space without even slightly touching wings, passed over the strip mall and continued without stopping. The whole show lasted about 10 minutes which is a long time for continuous thousands of monarch butterflies. I looked around the restaurant and realized that no one else was watching. No one. They had missed a once in a lifetime experience. I could have shouted out to the other diners when I first noticed the flight but had become instantly engrossed in the beauty and significance of the event. Realizing that I had witnessed the regal flight of a species that found this to be an ordinary day in its existence left me in an amazing state of awe. Gratitude to Gaia.

A lesson here - don't forget to look up!