The eclipse is over. Once again, the sun-eating dragon of ancient lore was foiled, and the more contemporary predictions of the End of Days fell as flat as those latter-day seers prophet bona fides.
Maybe it was all that earthly noise-making that put the cosmic winged serpent to flight, or heaven’s mercy — or the moon finally just got out of the way of Old Sol’s rays. Whatever, it was Little Orphan Annie who proved the prophet, lyric and true.
Like the young lady said, the sun did come out today, and it will tomorrow.