Full Worm Moon - March 2019

The vernal equinox.

Spring is knocking, worms waking up for their work in the garden.

What a long winter!

These past weeks I've been making space by clearing things away. Coming across bits and scraps of scribbled paper. They rise to the tops of piles and I recognize them, moments forgotten, returned. Didn't I hoard them away for the future, my present self? Here I am!

Scraps from when I was 21 and future planning, full of hope and longing. I would have 1-2 children, work in film, teach for awhile, become a journalist, then retire to run a bookstore at 50. Things didn't quite turn out that way, but I think my 21-year-old self would be quite pleased in many ways.

Amazed even, at some unimagined adventures.



Also re-found a wonderful poem, already recorded in the blog but worth repeating.

Escondido Night

The moon is the shape

Of this hidden cove

Fishing boats are constellations

We floated through a heaven

That glittered phospherescent

like plankton in tinfoil

And paused between a pair:

Aurorita and Viridiana, to thrash

about like comets just

let out of school.

And continued on a light year

Later moondust in my mouth

And all over your body

Cavatinas for Long Nights, Jim Christy

The full worm moon will occur on March 20th, 2019 at 9:43 PM ET