and the moon teaches her lessons...

i go outside every night to feed my dogs and look at the stars. i guess some nights i just notice the stars, or glance up...maybe acknowledge the stars. but there are many nights that i really look at them. first of all, there are much better stars here than where i used to live. and second of all, even though there are lots of trees, i have a really nice opening to see the stars through in my backyard...

so anyway. for the last week, the moon has been really bright. well, the harvest moon was a few days ago, so i mean BRIGHT...full....huge....made shadows of the trees. it was so bright i kept imagining getting a "moonburn"...i could practically read by it. and it really made feeding the dogs easy, which i didn't realize until last night, when the moon was wwaaaaayyyyy on the other side of my house and really tiny and dull. and i walked outside to a pretty dark yard, had to walk to the side yard to let the dogs out, and then feed them, when i could barely see them. it was kind of annoying and i was thinking, "geez, where's the moon?" so i realize in my head that harvest moons are special because they are not up every night and that i need to get ready for some darkness again. so i sit in my chair while they're eating, look up at the dark sky, and POW! the stars hit me, and i am weepy and appreciative and amazed and awed. and i laugh. because when the moon is so bright, you cannot see the stars. and so go the seasons of life... i'm always looking at the parts of life that i don't care for, but last night, i could so easily see the worthy, wonderful parts of the phases of the moon. the brilliance before her when she's bright and the brilliance behind her when she's not...

luckily, i am still a student and madly scribbling my notes as she teaches...

peace