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<\/a>What a moon tonight, full and low in the northeastern sky, that golden tan color just before twilight. \u00a0It hung there, as Kate said, as if someone had taken a photograph of a beautiful moon and cut and pasted it onto the sky.<\/p>\n(sadly, this photograph doesn’t do it justice, but it was splendid.)<\/p>\n
There is no heavenly phenomenon that gives me more moments of sublime beauty, more catch my heart moving moments, more stand still and stare moments than the moon. \u00a0A crescent moon with Jupiter in its arms. \u00a0A full moon shining on new fallen snow. \u00a0A half moon sending shadows down from tomato plants and iris. \u00a0That full moon in the first month back on campus. \u00a0A sweaty moon pushing lambent light through a hot and humid night, crickets chirping and lightning bugs flashing.<\/p>\n
A moon standing high in the sky with the aurora borealis behind it. \u00a0A moon reflected and shaken by ripples in a still pond. \u00a0Koi pecking at the image.<\/p>\n
I remember a moon one night, north of Ely in the Boundary Waters. \u00a0It was January and my week long class on the timber wolf had driven out to an opening in the woods. \u00a0We howled into the darkness, trying to get the wolves to howl back. \u00a0The full moon that night. \u00a0It said lunacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Moon of the New Year What a moon tonight, full and low in the northeastern sky, that golden tan color just before twilight. \u00a0It hung there, as Kate said, as if someone had taken a photograph … Continue reading Sheer Lunacy<\/span>