"The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. --Henry BestonThe moon is one of those elemental things. Often I'm surprised by the moon blinking bright when I open the blind in the early morning dark or when it appears like a ghost in the midday sky, or on an evening drive as it rises slowly from behind the mountains like a hot-air balloon.
How removed is my awareness from the moon, its phases and cycles. How would my life change if I made an effort to be aware.? How would I apply this knowledge? What different choices would I make, knowing, anticipating each full moon, each new moon, marking the times of moon rise and moon set?
And conversely, how would my life need to change in order for this awareness to come naturally, to be an imperative of my daily requirements for living, to be noticed, observed assimilated as easily as I now note whether or not the sun shines? I plan to find the answers to these questions.
Isn't it amazing how undiminished our delight in each moon remains? Just think how many hundreds and hundreds of times we have gazed on her, and yet her beauty and mystery move us still.
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I never tire of looking at the moon, watching the different phases and Woodswalker is right, her beauty and mystery do indeed still move us!
ReplyDeleteLovely photo and perfect for the day!
Sylvia
This is beautiful. The moon is so important to me.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post this week.
The ABC Team.
There is always a sense of wonder looking at the moon in all it cycles, and the previous posts are right it never loses its power to move.
ReplyDeleteI wonder does the poet, or the gardner who plants with its wax and wane, see it diffently than the NASA scientists, as they ready for impact on Friday at its the south pole.
The picture's nice, but I was at least as moved by the words.
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