50 in 50: 20 Sublime Moments

2025-06-08 fifty-in-fifty • 253 words
Can you make a list of 20 moments in your current or past life that you would classify as sublime?

I doubt it. I'll try.

  1. When I was around thirteen, a friend of mine twisted my arm behind my back. It was excruciatingly painful, but was I think the last time I felt truly alive.
  2. At the allotment, the robin hopped down to see me as I dug. He came within ten centimetres of me or so (as I remained statue still).
  3. At the allotment again, I observed a rather withered looking fox chewing the grass.
  4. A peek at a friendly robin through the trees, on a day I walked for nearly thirty miles.
  5. Lying in somewhat overgrown grass, and observing the ants and spiders within it.
  6. Observing a rain-specked calendula flower under torchlight of an nighttime.
  7. Lifting up sheets of black plastic to spot the families of slow worm.
  8. Choking through swarms of gnats when cycling down a countryside lane for a late night bike ride.

... I think I might be out of ideas for now.