You’ve probably sensed more than consciously realized
that the summer days are almost imperceptibly growing shorter. Like a shy smile,
they disappear almost, but not quite, before our very eyes. The
evening’s darkness last night approached a moment sooner than it did Monday evening
but not as soon as it will next Monday.
I saw my first ‘hey, kids! Get ready for back to school’
TV commercial yesterday and it made me remember how I used to feel when I was a kid and that happened, and how
much I hated adults for making up rules like just after something gets really
good, like vacation, it has to end. And now I am an adult who still has to
live by rules and never get to make any. Hoist with my own petard.
This weekend, assuming the cloud cover cooperates, is the
lunar perigee, when it will be a Supermoon.
I’m still childish enough to smile when I type Supermoon. I meant childlike, of course. Sure I did.
I love how the fullness of the moon brings out the
Doricness of the columns of the Lincoln Memorial though my fondness is tempered
by the certainty someone, somewhere, wonders where the Cadillac Memorial is. We
are a nation with the same sense of history possessed of a cat.
Actually my real reason for writing about the lunar
perigee is it affords me all the reason I could ever need to share one of my
absolute most favorite songs from someone gone too soon, Nick Drake, and Pink Moon. And it’s true, none of any of us stand
so tall.
-bill kenny
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