Yahoo news has replaced its headlines about Haiti with an article on tonight's wolf moon. We exited 2009 with two full moons in a month and entered the year with the brightest full moon planned for 2010. If you are lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, Yahoo says that your world will be fully illuminated. Imagine the things you can see tonight by the light of the moon that you never get to see! The shadows of trees by night, the glimmer in someone's eye that is ellusive in daylight, the intimate gestures of intimacy such as the close proximity of bodies walking silently from one place or another. The rare and seductive bath of moonlight often draws us out of our safe confines of home when its glare awakens us from sleep. In Colorado, moonlight can be like a naughty friend seducing you to run away, as it pesters sleeping souls with brightness as the coyote calls in the background hit resound like whispers telling you to wake up, come join the party. Full moons are often associated with odd and heightened behaviors, people with alzheimers are prone to a night of insomnia and retrospection, lover's swoons sound like falsetto desperation, and girlfriend giggles turn into tear filled nights of gut laughter.
I have read a lot of prayers on the internet about Haiti, and I am saying my own. My grandmother is praying and if anyone can remember to pray about the specifics, she can. No doubt remains that the people of the world are sending their thoughts to all people in and around Haiti. Tonight, I will pray for a small thing. I will pray the the people who suffer the loss of loved ones, limbs, jobs, homes, faith, food, water, favorite possessions, and assets unimaginable will have clear skies. I hope that their life will be illuminated in unexpected, unique, and beautiful ways. I hope that Mom doesn't even need her headlamp as she makes her rounds to examine children's faces as they look up at the moon.
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Sometimes we have to take the moon on faith. Here, in Olympia, it is so cloudy and rainy that tonights Wolf Moon looks like a flashlight whose batteries have gone low.
ReplyDeleteI have often thought of the moon as a common denomenator of humanity, a familiar lunar link over lands and people so strange and different from our own. But in this instance I see the moon as a prayer of something consistent and beautiful, something that reminds us we are all in this together.