Of course, it is not a matter of saving one ant out of a colony of ants!

After two ten-hour days at work, running non-stop in heels, I came home today in considerable pain. Bernd checked in from the San Jose airport and when his flight boarded, I crawled into bed with a heating pad and a copy of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s A Sense of Life, dozing on and off with the book digging uncomfortably into my side.

When I woke up, the apartment was flooded with strange light that somehow streamed through every window. I ran outside and gasped. That impossible sky. The rainbow imprinted faintly over the rooftops, adjacent to pitch-black clouds. I've never seen anything like it. Neighbors I've never seen even coming and going in the morning leaned out their windows and stared.

The sky looked like this fifteen minutes ago—no edits or enhancements!