listen! do you smell something?

Each full moon of the year has a name.  The full moon on April 28 was the "Pink Moon" - so called for the blooming wild ground phlox, one of the most widespread flowers to be found in early spring.

This gorgeous picture was taken by Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi from his lofty vantage aboard the International Space Station, where he and fellow crewmembers experience the sun rise and set an average 16 times per day.

  Think about it.  For a great deal of terrestrial-bound humans, a sunrise is a rare occurrence, a thing of quiet wonder.  To be awake for a sunrise, in my experience, is to see the world in transition, when it is not quite awake.  The light reflects off the city and tells the people to rise into the hustle and bustle activity which animates the steel and concrete every day.

Everyone knows the sun, they said goodnight last night, but fewer have greeted the coming of the day this morning, and even fewer did it in contemplation of what was happening in the sky above their cereal bowls.

The interchanging sun and moon still speak to us, in the language of the seasons and tides.


I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get you all
It's a pink moon
It's a pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon.