Tag: nature

Trying Too Hard 2 B Human

“Now it’s an abstract thought, but I’ve been thinking non-stop, ‘bout the fact that my body’s made most out of raindrops.” ~ Switchfoot, Saltwater Heart

A little time on the Emerald Coast was just what the doctor prescribed. The ocean is still in my nose as I’m collecting my thoughts tonight like sea shells on the beach. I’m remembering a unique phone call I had at work a few weeks ago. The memory of it keeps rolling in like waves with a repetitive beating question on its foamy waters crashing against my thighs. What is real? …

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A Bite of Blood Moon Pie

Last week saw me living for nothing but deadlines with my dead beat sky, but this town doesn’t look the same tonight. These dreams started singing to me out of nowhere, and in all my life I don’t know that I ever felt so alive. ~ Switchfoot, “Awakening”

Scene: Midnight ~ that paradoxical hour that divides our sense of time. (“Is it night or is it morning?” Hmm…both.) Happy Blood Moon and Pi Day! I feel like there’s been a lack of social awareness for this grand celestial event which happens to be in congruence with all math lovers’ favorite day of the year. Last year millions of people embarked on trips across the states to view the solar eclipse while sporting eclipse glasses and souvenir t-shirts and indulging in special eclipse-themed snacks. I think this lunar eclipse deserves equal attention. We all should have planned to collectively eat moon pies at 3:14 in the morning, while solving mathematical equations under the crescent of light that will be present during this eclipse. Instead, a few dedicated moon lovers will be turning their gaze and their cameras upward on this “once in a red moon” kind of night…

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