The rockets' red glare

It must be my state of mind....

But numerous events of the past day begin to blur together.

The fireworks exploding over the east river, some with parachutes like flaming paratroopers cascading out of doomed planes.

The North Korean missile launches falling into the Sea of Japan.

The space shuttle lifting into space.

Kenneth Lay dying from a coronary.

The cloudburst of rain this morning that has left me absolutely drenched and shivering.

Like the world is cracking open in volcanic cataclysm and something new is aborning amidst the roar and fume.