It is a night for poets and sled dogs. Jiggs (you will recall him from several chapters back: the dog doing his Camille impression, who is now livelier than ever) insisted on going for a second walk. So, off we went into the 29 degree weather.
For we western Oregonians, this is cold. But I soon forgot all about the chill in the air. I looked up. The sky was not only cloudless, it looked like a black dome studded with lights. And lights of varying colors. Blue stars. White stars. Red stars. I do not recall a night when I could see the different colors in the stars. No wonder the Greeks thought the heavens were made of crystal spheres.
But all of that was the supporting chorus. Onto this stage stepped Luna in full glory, lighting up everything in a ghostly imitation of day. Today Michael Dickson wrote in his blog:
Tonight a giant moon will light this expansive patio, and visitors will see what their ancestors saw a hundred or more years ago.
As I stood looking into the creek reflecting the moon's light, I thought about the numerous generations of new and old Americans who stood on that very bank and looked at the magic of the moon on the water -- the same moon that tonight shines on a patio in Pátzcuaro evoking memories of generations gone by and many more to come.
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This morning by Lake Chapala, I woke around 5:30 and sat up in bed gazing at the moonlight in our yard and out over the lake. It felt like a world other than the "real" one, a magical space. I curled up in bed and did my morning deep breathing -- but instead of 100 breaths of air, I took in 100 breaths of moolight.
After that, who could sleep?
-- Rosana,
www.mexico-with-heart.com/blog/
It appears that all over North America people have been glorying in that beautiful moon. Wayne also posted a piece on the moon over the Caribbean coast. As I look out my window, I can see yjr moon rising right now. It promises to be another gorgeous night.
I have always wondered how some of the odd spellings show up on blogs -- and I now find myself doing the same thing. The "yjr" in that last comment was supposed to be a "the." Back to finger placement exercises for me.
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