Word: mists
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...last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild, bridgeless mountain torrent. And once we found ourselves walking a stone path suspended on tree trunks jutting out over a cliff's edge as, above us, the mist closed in on our night's campsite. Keen walkers on the right side of 60, it was harder than we had expected. But we made it. And what we got were virgin views, flower-filled meadows and granite landscapes shared only with shepherds and the mountain spirits...
There was dim light and deep mist and a hissing and grumbling of machinery and my little boat of life bobbing on the waves. And there were voices in the fog. First a young woman, then a man, then a woman. Erinn Erickson, Clint Williams, Erin Pawlaski. Angels saying my name, saying I was doing well, that the breathing tube would soon be out, putting a cool cloth on my forehead. A day's work for them, a revelation of human kindness...
When Tongchart Nusu, a food distributor in Phitsanulok, Thailand, yanks open the heavy steel door of his cold-storage locker, you get the expected burst of snowy frost?along with a moist, overpowering, rancid stench. Nostrils flaring, Tongchart draws the mist into his lungs, this sweet aroma of hard work, money, success: the odor of bugs...
...theories of human origins. Leakey's two other "angels"?sent out at the same time?were Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Goodall gained fame for her work with chimpanzees, detailing for the first time intercommunal warfare and cannibalism. Fossey, the subject of the Sigourney Weaver film Gorillas in the Mist, was instrumental in saving silverback gorillas from extinction...
When Sean Day hears the wail of a saxophone, he sees a writhing mass of neon-purple snakes hovering in the air. The hum of a harmonica, on the other hand, has a pleasantly greenish hue, while plunking pianos evoke a fine blue mist. Eating is colorful too. When Day takes a spoonful of mango sorbet, the wall before him turns lime green, rippled with cherry-red stripes...