WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.040 align:middle line:84% I also wrote this book in Tucson, so you'll see-- 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:06.270 align:middle line:84% that I was going to the bat bridge. 00:00:06.270 --> 00:00:10.230 align:middle line:84% And I'm saying that because this is the new work I'm working on. 00:00:10.230 --> 00:00:12.450 align:middle line:84% This literally has been missing for a week. 00:00:12.450 --> 00:00:16.196 align:middle line:84% It was lost by UPS. And just before we began, it arrived. 00:00:16.196 --> 00:00:19.346 align:middle line:90% It was kind of great. 00:00:19.346 --> 00:00:23.540 align:middle line:84% But this is a ritual where I'm watching the sun rise. 00:00:23.540 --> 00:00:28.010 align:middle line:84% The thing is about watching the sunrise, 00:00:28.010 --> 00:00:31.520 align:middle line:84% you know when your eyes are-- you squint your eyes 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:34.163 align:middle line:84% and you don't really see, everything is blurry? 00:00:34.163 --> 00:00:37.030 align:middle line:90% 00:00:37.030 --> 00:00:41.200 align:middle line:84% It's this moment where we get to expand 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.750 align:middle line:84% in that moment, that's sort of like-- just 00:00:43.750 --> 00:00:46.840 align:middle line:90% before the sun breaks through. 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:48.780 align:middle line:90% It's the same thing. 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:51.410 align:middle line:84% And I've been watching the sunrise here, 00:00:51.410 --> 00:00:55.850 align:middle line:84% and I wanted to bring the bats back into this new ritual. 00:00:55.850 --> 00:00:58.150 align:middle line:84% So I was actually able to get up really early 00:00:58.150 --> 00:01:00.070 align:middle line:84% in the morning to that bat bridge 00:01:00.070 --> 00:01:07.060 align:middle line:84% next to Trader Joe's and watch them come home and watch 00:01:07.060 --> 00:01:07.760 align:middle line:90% the sunrise. 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:09.760 align:middle line:84% And there's some falcon waiting for them 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:11.390 align:middle line:90% to catch them and eat them. 00:01:11.390 --> 00:01:15.650 align:middle line:84% But what I do then, I watch the sunrise wherever I'm at. 00:01:15.650 --> 00:01:19.760 align:middle line:84% And then later on in the day, I watch the sunrise again online, 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.360 align:middle line:90% on an outdoor public webcam. 00:01:22.360 --> 00:01:23.390 align:middle line:90% All over the world. 00:01:23.390 --> 00:01:25.150 align:middle line:84% And I'm stitching them together to watch-- 00:01:25.150 --> 00:01:28.010 align:middle line:84% eventually, to watch the sunrise 24 hours a day. 00:01:28.010 --> 00:01:29.480 align:middle line:90% I'm not into extreme sports. 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:31.580 align:middle line:84% It's just I want to experience it. 00:01:31.580 --> 00:01:34.780 align:middle line:84% It takes about nine minutes for that light 00:01:34.780 --> 00:01:38.510 align:middle line:84% to leave our star before it hits the planet. 00:01:38.510 --> 00:01:40.640 align:middle line:84% And I'm thinking about the nutrients 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.390 align:middle line:90% that it helps us develop. 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:43.620 align:middle line:90% Gives and develops. 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:46.400 align:middle line:84% I mean, I think I'm correct in saying that the cholesterol gets 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:50.460 align:middle line:84% converted into vitamin D. And these magical things happen. 00:01:50.460 --> 00:01:52.640 align:middle line:84% And one of the things I absolutely love, and I 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.440 align:middle line:84% experienced this in the desert here the other day, 00:01:55.440 --> 00:02:03.690 align:middle line:84% is that when the sun has not yet breached the horizon line, 00:02:03.690 --> 00:02:06.380 align:middle line:90% it's completely quiet. 00:02:06.380 --> 00:02:09.800 align:middle line:84% The moment the light appears, the bird starts singing. 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.560 align:middle line:84% There's silence and darkness, and then light and song, 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:14.150 align:middle line:90% like that. 00:02:14.150 --> 00:02:15.270 align:middle line:90% Wherever you're at. 00:02:15.270 --> 00:02:17.250 align:middle line:84% I've experienced it everywhere I go. 00:02:17.250 --> 00:02:19.810 align:middle line:90% And I just love it.