sunrise over the new year
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Nichinan, Kyushu, 2013.01.01
In the pre-dawn gloom this morning, we all piled into the cars to travel to the coast to observe the first sun rise of the new year. We weren't alone, it seemed that half of Nichinan had had the same idea. Unfortunately the weather had other plans, and as there became sufficient light to see, the view was obstructed by a low cloud deck. As Ken put it when describing it to his Opa via Skype, "at first we couldn't see anything; then there was nothing to see."