Dancing in the moonlight Dash peace and joy

SEEKING  PEACE AND JOY BY DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT

Dancin’ in the Moonlight (by King Harvest)  is a bright little  tune full of peace and joy.  Year, I didn’t. Write this to highlight the song—I’m shooting for the moon instead.  

A quick browse through. My camera roll will make it  pretty  obvious that I have a think for the moon.  No, I’m not a werewolf, although in recent years I have started. Sprouting hair in some strange places.  Since that’s already Okay that’s too much information—let’s  go back to images of Earth’s only natural satellite rather than focusing of the back of my right earlobe.  

When I was young, I thought the size of the moon changed  during the course of the month.  Then I learned the shape of the moon didn’t change and, in fact, the “shape of the moon really has to do with the amount of sunlight it is reflecting.  

So the moon is “trapped” in Earth’s orbit and doesn’t have light of its own?  Why then, does it intrigue me so?  Here’s why.

This  object (so far away) influences the tide.  Now on a planet that is  about 3/4ths water that’s pretty significant.  The moon makes a the  earth rotate slower every year.  Oh you won’t really not notice it, unless you live a very,very,very, long time.  However, about 4 billion years from now we won’t need a leap year anymore because  we won’t have that extra day to contend with.  Also the moon is very slowly  moving a bit farther away from earth—like a centimeter a year or so (I think that’s what I read).  

Okay, most of you aren’t fascinated  by this, but  here are some other things I want to add right before I get to the peace and joy part.  Over the course of human history men have  claimed the moon was a big ball of fire or (perhaps promoted by the state of Wisconsin) made of cheese.  The gravity on the moon isn’t as strong as the gravity on Earth so you would weigh only about one sixth of your Earth’s weight on the moon.  There is no “wind” on the moon so the flag you see in all those photos is not “flying.”  We made it look that way for the photo.  

The Moon, Peace, and Joy

About  20 years ago a friend of mine were talking one evening and he was about 550 miles  away when he says, “if the sky is clear where you are you should check out the  moonrise tonight.  The moon is huge.”  Even though it was pretty cool out I took the phone and walked out the back door to the alley and sure enough the moon was  just becoming visib ble and it was huge.  It was at that moment. It dawned on me that my buddy would always share the impression of this  event and even more, it meant that. Anytime I wanted to remember our friendship as something  present and near I only needed to find the moon in the sky because we shared that.  Now here’s the cosmic peace  part.

Since then I have always. Felt that distance is not important in friendships when you take the time to share experiences.  The moon is just one little object. In a vast  universe and yet since anyone can look up and see it and share it, it becomes an incredibly powerful sign of togetherness and peace in the dark. Or the night.  Now I use the moon to think of friends near and far.  I stare up and think about  what everyone. Seeing  the moon has in common rather than how we all all so different. Sometimes.  I respect the fact that this Little Rock in space can influence a vast planet and that brings me joy because sometimes I needs to know that little efforts  from solitary figures can really, really, influence humanity.  The moon creates  an oppportunity for me to  believe that  the experiences we  share can be connected and powerful forces in the universe and the feeling I get inside is one of tremendous joy.  .  

So tonight when you see the  moon reach out your thoughts to someone  who needs your peace and joy—and don’t worry about that hair on your toes it’s normal LOL.