Despite heavy fog draped over the world this morning, something quite different now begins to take shape in the sky and across the land.  Some form of bright, all-encompassing light now casts a growing luminescence where only shadow has lived for ten days.  What can this odd phenomenon be?

One might easily assume it to be a celestial wonder heretofore unseen.  Might it be the heavens now portend some unknown doom by way of this explosive radiance falling upon us?  Has our astronomy failed to predict a cataclysmic event which appears capable of setting ablaze the very air we breathe?

Oh, what calamitous upheaval now befalls us?

But wait…  Some touch of this golden sky-god seems familiar to my skin, almost known to my eyes.  Can it be that lost friend too long removed from our lives?  Is that warmth I feel only a remembrance of that which is lost, or is it a visitation by an acquaintance forgotten after so much time?

I reach out and grab a handful of the dazzling glow even as it continues to brighten.  My hand closes easily around the intense fire saturating the world, and I hold it close to me.  Only when pressed against my cheek do I finally recognize it.

The sun has finally returned.  Climbing rapidly into a clear sky, it casts its burning gaze downward.

Where have you been for so long, my friend?