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| blue moon over Duxbury Bay, low tide reflection 8.31.12 |
Although it appeared orange, it's a blue moon, the second full moon of the month. So beautiful.
Today, appropriately, was also the day of Neil Armstrong's funeral, so I thought of him. His family request: "Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink." (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/blue-moon-full-moon-month-friday-coincides-neil/story?id=17117776)
Once in a blue moon, we say... What has happened today, only today? Today itself has happened, and all that is in it - all during a blue moon. Blue moons don't happen often, but what happens today is unique to today. How many little gifts were we given today? That walk with Penny, our convent dog, will only happen once. I hope there will be other walks with her before I leave for Haiti, of course, just as I hope there will be other conversations, other blue skies, other laughter. There will be other really good things to taste (morning coffee, take-out Chinese, Greek yogurt!) and other finds (a book on cassette tape in 2012 and for only $1 - something to take to Haiti for battery-powered evenings in the dark!). There will be sisters and friends and family to think of. Each of these things is something unique, something to be treasured or at least recognized at the end of the day.
What happened to you? What treasures were you given? What did you experience once in this blue moon?
Much for which to give thanks and praise.
Glorify the Lord, you angels and all powers of the Lord, *
O heavens and all waters above the heavens.
Sun and moon and stars of the sky, glorify the Lord, *
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
-- Canticle 12, Benedicite, omnia opera Domini
-- Song of the Three Young Men, 35-65 ( BCP 88)
And then, with the gift of laughter, there is the background music for all these musings:
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