Just
Plain Bill
We recently had a celestial event when we experienced a rare, “red moon”
or “blood moon” eclipse; the moon was at its closest distance to Earth and in
the Earth’s shadow. It’s a remarkable combination that hadn’t occurred since
1982 and won’t be viewed again for 18 years.
As a youngster, I suppose like most people, I took the daily rising and
setting of the sun for granted, as a matter of routine or simply as the natural
order of things. However, it wasn’t too long before I experienced intrigue when
something out of the ordinary would occur, whether it was a lunar or solar
eclipse, or even a northern California earthquake.
Even daylight savings time was intriguing to me. It changed my usual
pattern between sunup and sundown, which I thought was cool, as it gave me more
time to play during the day. In fact, I’m of the age to have experienced double
daylight savings time and year-round daylight savings time during World War II,
when it stayed light until after 10 o’clock in the evening.
As an adult, I have to admit I’ve come to dislike the changing of the
clock twice a year. My body is too used to “regular” time. But my mind? Far
less so. Concerning the expected patterns of time, books and movies have
presented radically different ideas of how time and the heavenly events are
changed in various fictional ways. I’ve become enamored with the concept of
time travel, and the possibilities of going backward and forward in time.
In fact, I think I just noticed movement out of the corner of my eye
that I’m sure is coming from a different dimension.
Did you see it too?
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