The Eclipse

There have been other eclipses in recent memory,

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but none quite like last night's. The moon was not a wafer, it was a fully dimensional sphere. It seemed so real in a way it hadn't been before, and it made this planet we live and breathe on seem more real too.

My mom loved  the moon, so of course I thought of her, and I remembered the night of a lunar eclipse a few years back when Dan and I went into McDonalds and tried to buy two senior coffees but couldn't come up with the full 1.20. The girl waiting on us thought we were homeless, I think, and she gave us the coffees anyway and filled up a little paper sack with creamers and sugars.

View from my patio

 No one offered me free coffee this morning but I did get out of my car on the beach and wander/wonder around a bit in my cheetah print pajamas covered up with a long tweed wool winter coat and a big scarf.

The moon hovering over a pink ocean at sunrise

There were other spectators too, and it was kind of a party without any talking. I saw two older women with canes and a thermos of coffee work their way to the top of the rocks where they filled their mugs and settled in.

Really, the whole thing was fabulous.

Sinking into the silver water