Letters to the Moon....

Tomorrow night’s full moon is a rare event-it is a blue moon. What is the definition of a blue moon? When a month has two full moons within the same month, the second full moon is called a blue moon. Blue moons are not at all common; the last blue moon occurred in July of 2015. This brings to mind a popular phrase in the English language: “once in a blue moon.” This phrase is used to describe something happens infrequently, not a regular occurrence. Besides the rarity of experiencing a blue moon this month, tomorrow night’s full moon will be a supermoon.  A supermoon or “super moon” is when the moon is the closest to the moon in its orbit. As such the moon appears larger and brighter in the nighttime sky.  https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/BAQb9XwhXnH16WH8GBFIdIRB_5o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9789047/29_supermoon_size_1280.jpg Tomorrow night’s supermoon completes lunar trilogy -the full moons on December 3, 2017 and January 1, 2

Another year has come and gone. I had a wonderful Christmas season. I put up my Christmas tree a few days after Halloween, which, believe it or not, is late for me. I have relished in the soft colored Christmas lights on my own tree as well as in light displays near my home. I also marked the holiday season by indulging in my favorite winter treat-hot chocolate. It doesn’t get any better than that. For the Christmas holiday, I took a trip to the East Coast to visit the members of my family that live there. For the family members that weren’t able to attend, we reached out by phone and text. While I had a wonderful Christmas season, it was the high point of the year. So many horrible things happened last year, all around the world. It feels good to stand in the New Year, to have moved on from 2017. Still, I feel it only right to look back on the year, to think about all that happened in the year, to contemplate the lessons I have learned. Here then are the lessons from 2017….