The other day I had to go to work at 6pm instead of my normal time at 10:30pm. I was not too happy about it (although coming to work never makes me happy). My means around that is usually to listen to 2 songs on the drive (there's only time for 2). One of them is One Slip, by Pink Floyd. The other lately, has been Transformation by The Bulgarian Women's Choir from the Brother Bear soundtrack.

So on my way, I was listening to Transformation. The road I had to turn down to get to the company, right on the corner there's a decent sized field. Well when I passed that field I had to stop dead in the road, because with the song playing in the background, there was a huge hawk just flying over the field, revelling in the wind, soaring and diving, climbing and evoking all kinds of hair-raising tingling for me.

It was like the world opened up and all of a sudden I "grokked" everything. It was amazing. I even started crying it was so cool. I'm not usually that free with my emotions; for most of my life, I've been very stoic. But having the mysteries of the universe just splayed out like that for me to view was positively incredible. It was my Transformation.