We walked over to our second bedroom that was south facing and opened the balcony door. The brisk air rushed inside when we caught a glimpse of the moon being swallowed by the earth's shadow.
We rushed back into the bedroom and headed to grab the warmest clothes we could find. I with my fo-fur lined hoodie, and her with her white body length parka. Mitts, scarfs and toques followed with a hurry, thoughts that we were missing out ran through our minds. Confident that we were as warm as we could be we headed outside and slid shut the balcony doors behind us.
The sky was so clear, the air was clean and the darkness was silent only to be broken by the bright moonlight.
We stared into the sky and looked at the awe of our moon, suspended in the vast sky. "Hun, can you imagine what people must've thought the moon was hundreds of years ago?" I asked, while admiring the beauty of my wife. I couldn't help but think how she looked like a bond girl. "Yeahh" she replied with an extended sigh… "They must've thought it was a god." We paused… "Just imagine how comforting that is though, knowing that there is a god that you can actually see every night." I added..
The day in age we live in where we have scientific answers for mostly everything. How having an answer for almost everything, takes the magic out of the beautiful things nature shows us all the time. And how magical things must've been to the ignorant.
I completely support that we are better knowing things than not knowing, because being aware allows humankind in general to make better decisions. Not irrational decisions based on religious presumptions.
"I'm going to grab my camera", I ran inside and fitted my Canon 7D with the biggest lens I had. I didn't think i'd get any good results, but figured it was worth try. I came back outside, my wife still staring at the sky. Lifted my camera up and stretched the lens as far as it would reach into the sky, twisted the focal ring and… there he was… the man on the moon.
His smile become bigger and sharper with every twist of my wrist. Seeing his smile infected mine, the crisper he got, my smile grew larger. I looked over to my wife "You gotta see this hun…" and handed her the camera… she peeked inside the camera and her smile grew like mine.
She snapped a few photos and let the camera rest on her chest.
We stood there… staring into the sky… "I'm glad I'm sharing this moment with you hun." "Me to hun, she reached out and locked her fingers in mine. We both knew a lunar eclipse on winter solstice wouldn't happen for another 19 years.
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