July 14, 2011

• The full moon is hypnotically beautiful tonight, rising golden and dreamy and ethereal in the southeastern sky. As I walked down our hill just at dark, to finish the day’s work, I couldn’t take my eyes off it. And my initial thought was, “How I wish I could capture the image and then share it with those who cannot see it.” And then my next thought was, “But how would I also capture the sound of a thousand tree frogs, their symphony filling the night air in accompaniment to the rising of the moon. And the scent of honeysuckle and elderberry, sweet and heavy, surrounding the sound….and the twinkling of the lightning bugs, beginning their night’s work, blinking a “Good evening” to one another as they hover and float, here and there….I’d want to add that, too, to create the whole of it. A simple walk through the evening, to finish a mundane task, elevated by the incredible beauty of the whole to something surreal and astonishing…no one could have scripted it more nicely.

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