5. Venus and The Queen
The transit of Venus only happens twice
eight years apart and then not again for more than a hundred years.
This time, it happens while good Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her
Diamond Jubilee. We saw her on the news today, impeccable as always.
“God Save the Queen.” A sixty gun salute. A flying flag. The
crowds below and on the balcony the soft peach color of the lace on
William's Kate, and the muted stoney brown on the wife of Charles,
and his mother, dressed in white - a woman as rare, I think, as the
transit of Venus.
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