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by Stormbringer » Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:23 am
The moon!
At night it's absolutely beautiful and for many years I have loved gazing up at its silvery glow. However, I have an especial love of the moon when it appears in the day-time in a clear, sunny autumn sky.
Once, when I was in high-school, I guess about 20 years ago, I was sitting in a really boring geography lesson on a sunny afternoon in early autumn. I looked out of the window at about 2:45 and saw the moon hanging in the sky just above the trees that lined the nearby road. I felt a sense of real peace and tranquility from looking at it, reminding me that in just a few minutes' time the school day would end I would be on my way home beneath its calm, watchful gaze.
Ever since then, whenever I see the moon in a clear sky on a sunny, autumn day, I think back to that moment and the peace I felt, and think about how, no matter how crazy things seem on earth, the moon is always there, looking down, ever the same.
"Kingdoms and empires pass away like mist from the sea; the people shout and triumph and even in the revelry of Belshazzar's feast, the Medes break the gates of Babylon."
— Robert E. Howard, The Gates of Bal-Sagoth