A Super Blue Moon

The Push and Pull of Tides

Ancient man believed the moon could affect their lives.  Even now, Emergency Room staff will tell you the full moon causes busier nights and more erratic behavior among their patients.  Certainly, the tide rises and falls on the cycles of the moon, and the human body is 70% water, so maybe we are swayed by the lunar cycle.  “Moon madness” gave rise to the word “lunacy.”

View of the moon from our yard.

Here we are most of the way through August, clinging to the final, sweaty remnants of summer like a soggy swimsuit smelling of chlorine and mildew.  The political atmosphere is charged with an energy that feels like a powder keg ready to ignite, while the environment sizzles toward record heat, cooking us all like lobsters in a pot. 

It’s hard to maintain a sense of peace and balance in a world that feels so off-kilter.  I know I’ve felt more irritable and restless lately.  Fatigue has kept me pinned down, and when I try to fight against the invisible quicksand that surrounds me, I’m walloped with an even larger wave of exhaustion.  This begins the endless rounds of questioning:  is it my meds, the weather, menopause?  Whatever the question, the answer seems to be a nap.

I have no words of wisdom this week, other than to seek a reset in nature.  Take the time to walk in the park, in the woods, along the river.  Listen to the wind in the trees whispering to you.  Hear the babbling or roaring of the water.  Eavesdrop on the gossip of the birds.  Go sniff a tree trunk.  Do it.  Inhale that earthy aroma and reset your primal brain to its factory settings.   

Pet a dog or a horse or a hamster.  Feel the beating of another living creature’s heart against your hand, your cheek.  Close your eyes and feel the sun on your face.  The same sun that shines on your face shines on every other living thing on the planet without regard to who or what they are.  We are all connected.  We are one. 

An exquisite array of flowers from our garden.

Now go out there and do something good.  One random act of kindness can save the world.

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