Shoot the Moon

Sunday greetings on this final supermoon weekend of the year.

It was a fitting finale for sleepover-camp here at newShrink.

At center above (as with most things about the week) is granddaughter Miz E, who looked wet and splashy like this a good bit of every day.

Photos counter-clockwise from top left capture the current full “supermoon” from a sampling of locations around the globe: Alameda, CA, USA; Edinburgh Castle, Scotland; Kosice, Slovakia; Liverpool, England; and Istanbul, Turkey. Supermoons, as you may recall, are when the full moon is within 90% of perigee – its closest approach to Earth. Here’s a story from CBS News: Sturgeon moon – the last supermoon of the year – captured in spectacular photos around the world. The sturgeon nickname for this one comes from Native American traditions in which various moon phases and other celestial phenomena are named for wildlife and plants on Earth.

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This is an abbreviated edition, for I am still on 6-year-old time, attention-span and state of mind and psyche. On occasion I’ve been proud to be described as pretty energetic… well, for a girl (or maybe for an oldster). So now seems a good time to pause and extend some humbled gratitude and kudos to all parents, grandparents and others raising, teaching, loving and guiding children on a full-time, day-to-day basis. From the standpoint of the soul it’s foundational, richly rewarding, and often hilariously fun. It’s also consuming, not for the impatient, ego-fragile or faint-of-heart. So…

Thank you.

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And, that is all I have! Talk to you next week, with a regular edition of newShrink.

🦋💙 tish

… it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
— William Stafford, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”