Terrifying or Exhilarating?

It depends.

Though Seattle was far from the path of the solar eclipse this week, we were watching. And our pal Seth Godin helped me to reflect on what was so captivating to millions of us as we watched the breath-taking change in the light. “Until recently,” he wrote, “a solar eclipse wasn’t a tourist event. It was the cause of real panic.” Why?

• Eclipses used to be …