highway angel

“Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; 

don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...

Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.”
― Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches

The Angel of the North is an enormous steel sculpture designed by Antony Gormley 

that overlooks the highway in Gateshead, England.

And I mean enormous: it is 66 feet tall and its wings measure 177 feet across. 

It can withstand winds over 100 mph.

We drove by one afternoon and I was agog. Luckily, we followed the same route back the next day, and as it was a gorgeous sunny day, we stopped to see it up close and personal.

Totally, totally amazing and awe-inspiring:

i felt so small.

and safe.

xo, liv