red moon with stars
All over the great big Internet, there is a trend in which it is fashionable to complain about what other folks say or share or post in social media. If a bunch of people exhibit some level of shared interest in a thing, there invariably follows a tidal wave of snark — all in unison! — about how lame it is that all those other people talk and post and share pictures of that thing.
Well, guess what? Are you sitting down? Good. There was a lunar eclipse the other night. Seriously! I got to see the whole thing! There was a gorgeous view of it from the little garden behind my house. I stood out there and soaked up the time, enjoying the breeze and listening to my beloved neighborhood bugs whir and peep. I saw a few pajama-clad kids walking east with their parents toward the evergreen farm, where there’s less light at ground level. (One dad was so busy admiring the sky that he tripped on the curb.)
The next day, there were umpteen gazillion pictures of that eclipsed moon on the Internet. Umpteen gazillion little stories in which somebody looked up at our mythologically potent lil’ moon in shadow and thought “Hey, that’s pretty neat,” just like I did. Umpteen gazillion reminders that we’re all on this earth together, whether we like it or not.
So if you want to spend your energy complaining about your recreational social media experience today, darlin’, you go right ahead. You are free, as always, to move along and look elsewhere. As for me, I’m not tired of looking at the moon yet, nor of being reminded that people all over the place, young and old, got to spend a little time feeling a little bit of wonder, and were pleased by it. I’m not sure I ever will be.
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