"You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." says The Little Prince from French aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 1943 story. So, there must be such a side of Keith Olbermann. His ability to shoot breathtaking views of New York City sunsets is well known to his current twitter followers. (Documented in pictures, even!) He has chronicled just about every type of ceiling the big city has, from ominous low fog, to clouds that look like rabbits at Easter, to Apocalyptic paintings across the atmosphere. His predictions and forecasts need not be restricted to politics, though those are usually right on spot.
Losing both parents in a period of a couple years is enough to make one melancholy. A past love affair and break up can do the same. But if there is a profound seriousness at times within the man, consider that he can see what the world could be. And he has seen, along with just about all of us, how awful man's inhumanity to man can be. After September 11, the skyscape changed for Olbermann, New Yorkers, and the world in general. It is written many times that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center made a lasting impression on him. Keep in mind that he reported from the site for 40 days. He then published an apology at Salon.com, mentioning bridges he had burned and seemingly taking a turn for the better as a human being. Perhaps his personal digital portraits of that Big Apple sky reveal his sense of loss and sorrow. Only a real man could ever send out so much of his soul with a mere Moby tweet.
In 1980, Keith hit his head on the top of a subway door while running into a waiting car, but the jolt did not affect his sight drastically. Though his depth perception was compromised, and he would never drive a car after that event, his views of the New York skies are unusual and amost mythical. In the brief months between MSNBC and Current TV, Olbermann has become quite the skyline photographer. Things are looking up, as we see here in the slideshow.
One follower recently tweeted to ask if it was true that Keith was getting all rested up, and the pundit responded in the affirmative. Though he left MSNBC in January and was hired by Current TV less than twenty days later, the departure freed up some time that seemed to give both the man and his fans some wonderful respite. Following a stress fracture, he literally put his feet up, however, he jokingly led tweeters to believe he had done the damage in a butt-kicking contest. After all, everyone needs a break now and then. Something fits here about reaching and grasping and asking, "What's a heaven for?" And something else about a thousand words.
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