They can be a perfect ending to a day we hope to remember forever or the final curtain on a time we want to quickly forget.
My favorite quote about sunrises and sunsets doesn't come from a famous author like Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's from former Red Sox General Manager Lou Gorman, who passed away in 2011.
In a Sports Illustrated remembrance, Dan Shaughnessy recalled Gorman's reaction to Roger Clemens walking out of Spring Training in the late '80s.
One of my favorite moments in baseball came in the spring of 1987 when young Red Sox ace Roger Clemens walked out of spring training camp in Winter Haven. Clemens was reigning Cy Young and American League MVP. It was a pretty big deal when he stormed off the premises after the Sox renewed his contract for low dough. Thirsty for official club reaction, reporters surrounded Sox general manager Lou Gorman.
Ever polite and accommodating, Gorman answered all of our questions. Then, in an effort to put things in perspective and dial down the hysteria, he said, "The sun will rise, the sun will set, and I'll have lunch."
And so we all had lunch and life went on, and a month later Clemens was back and he won the Cy Young Award again in 1987.
Author Darnell Lamont Walker writes of people who run to museums for paintings, while he runs to the roof for sunsets.
I head to the water.
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| Clearwater Beach at Sunset (2017) |
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| Dunedin at Sunset (2017) |
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| Sunset in Falmouth (2016) |
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| Sunset at the Cape Cod Canal (2014) |
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| Sunrise in Barnstable Village 2014 |
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| Sunset at Lake Tahoe (2015) |
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