Perfectly ordinary day. Just like millions before it. No hint, no warning that anything terrible was about to occur. Then…

To be technical, this wasn’t a one day event. The asteroid struck, and unleashed its fury, but the aftershocks went on for years. Some of the dinosaur species may have taken a thousand years to die off. Maybe more.

But my point here is that first moment. The cataclysm that most living things were not even immediately aware was happening. Like so many native Americans who did not know for years that the Europeans had arrived.

We’re all so fragile.