It’s a foggy morning in Oklahoma City. The Devon Tower, OKC’s tallest skyscraper, is nearly 3/4 hidden, as are the other city’s other major skyline buildings. The cloud cover has taken over, at least for the time being, and in that take over, I typically find a lot of peace.
There’s just something about the way that fog makes the everyday world around us disappear. It brings a slowness to a day that wouldn’t normally be there, and I feel like that’s why I usually just want to sit in a bed with a good book and a bottomless cup of coffee on days like today. The fog tends to hide the anxieties and stresses that the city can bring with it just by looking at it.
A concept I often think about is how humans build tall buildings to make us feel small because I think we all like the feeling of standing in awe of something greater than ourselves. I think that’s why we love mountains and oceans - they’re big, beautiful and things we can just stand at the foot of and feel the awe.
Today, fog feels like one of those things too. The way it takes over and impresses itself upon us all, and for that, we can be grateful… especially until Oklahoma grows more mountains or somehow gets access to an ocean (would not be great for Texas).
-Cliff
Cliff’s Note: Standing up and feeling small is where the awe comes into place.