Japanese Moon
I saw the moon today. We went walking at dusk and in the late light it sat, heavy and orange on the horizon. I saw it and--in that strange abstract association that sometimes happens--I exclaimed instantly, "A Japanese moon!" I can't really guess why I thought that.
Despite having never seen a real Japanese moon, my sub-conscious has somehow managed to erect a predermined image of what one should look like. Glowing like a thousand party lanterns on low, I see it looming behind the spreading branches of a cherry tree. The ice blue of it's glory shows up the fragile blossoms like sugar-tipped fairies dancing demurely across it's graven face.
Our moon was orange and there wasn't a pink cherrry blossom in sight. A band of sheer cloud floated across it's glowing ochre middle, sultry like a veil, and stark like muslin cloth. It might have been an Arabian moon for all it's flirty look, an African one for the earthy glow; but no, see the trees, imagine the majestic white-capped mountains frowning stately from the background. It's a Japanese moon.
I think I like moons. I've never really thought about it before, but I always do like it when I can't sleep in the wee hours of the morning and the glow of the full moon lights my wandering way, keeping the cheeky chair legs and table corners at bay.
There's something companionable about the moon. It's just there. I forget it exists for half the time but come once a month, my toes aren't smashed and red for lack of sufficient illuminating light and I notice it's there.
Isn't this so true in every part of life? I've been thinking a lot about "simple loves" the last few days, and remembering the moon, I wonder how many other simple things I'm forgetting. Is there friendships I'm taking for granted? Late night movie watching I'm not appreciating?
I'd hate to think about this in a guilt-induced kind of way, but seriously, thinking of the olympics that line from a song in the Sydney closing ceremony repeats itself in my head: "I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye."
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