I took my dog outside this morning as it was beginning to get light out. The full moon was hanging on the downward side of the western sky, and I stood and stared at it, with what felt like the first sense of wonder I’ve felt in a very long time. I really looked at it. I wanted to look inside it and through it; so badly that I thought if I stared at it long and hard enough, I would be able to.
The light from the moon is really just a reflection of the light from the sun, but it is so incredibly bright, almost as if it is coming from within the moon itself. What are those dark patches? They look like silhouettes of the continents on earth. What makes all of the craters? Asteroids? Comets? Meteors? (Are they all the same thing?) Or did it happen millions of years ago, such as the earth did. Which came first, the moon or the earth? Did they evolve together or separately? The only thing holding it in earth’s orbit is the gravitational pull from the earth. What would happen if it were to be knocked out of earth’s orbit? Would we still have high and low tides and if not, how would that affect our oceans, and all of the sea life within them? Would it affect our seasons, and if so, how? Would it have an effect on other planets and their moons? How would it affect us? And those poor coyotes would have nothing to howl at anymore.
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