Cole has had limited experiences with sunsets. In the wintertime, it is too cold to watch the sunset plus it kind of just happens during those long frigid months, you blink and the sun is gone way before we have even sat down to eat dinner.
In the summertime, the sun sets way after his bedtime since here in Minnesota at our higher latitude, summer twilight lasts until after 10pm...so our annual September trip to the Outer Banks is really the only time he has seen the sunset. He normally is off his schedule anyway and the sun at that time of year is dropping earlier as fall approaches. So his frame of reference for watching the sun sink has really only been watching it disappear over the waters of the Pamilico Sound.
Lately, he has been a bugger about going to bed. Revved up from his day one past evening, he was still up as the sun began to descend, its light "pinking" up the billowy clouds. He kept saying how "beautiful" it was with that genuine inflection in his voice that said he really meant it.
Then out of the blue he says "the sun is going into the side of the earth". I had no initial reply as I sat there awestruck. I just looked at him as if he had just spoken Latin. I finally overcame my speechlessness with "you are right Cole, the sun comes up on one side of the earth, in the East and sets on the other side, the West". Where did you learn that? at school? His reply "No, I just know it."
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