moon | moon
Oct.12.2012
The moon returns night after night, and we never tire of the repetition. I'm hoping you'll feel the same way about three consecutive JOK Notebook entries about the moon!
When two full moons appear within a calendar month, the second is a "blue moon." What, then, do you call it when October...
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Oct.05.2012
A Japanophile acquaintance, David, stopped by my office last week, hoping to see the "nerve center" of Joy o' Kanji, as he put it! He brought me three kanji books, as well as Japanese desserts associated with a moon-viewing (月見, つきみ) festival.
Image Credit: N yotarou
Harvest...
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Sep.14.2012
My husband and I have affectionately nicknamed our five-year-old son “quiz master”. Dinner, car rides and quite moments are now his opportunity to ask us a variety of questions, rapid fire and nonstop. I’d always heard that children enter a phase where every statement is followed by the...
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Aug.29.2012
She peers out the window into thenight, under the rays of the moon.From somewhere the words appear: bamboo moon.
She climbs through the largeopening of a bamboo shoot,crawls up and up,
guidedby the moon;light filters in.Dark womb,she feels a swayingmotion through her limbs,a lake in sight, midnight...
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Aug.26.2012
Who would have thought that Neil Armstrong’s death would take us back to semantics? The eleven words he uttered are not merely historic. They convey evolution. It is almost Darwinesque. And like Darwin, this was challenged. Not for the words alone, although they added to the controversy....
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Aug.05.2012
This book has hit some bumps, curves and setbacks along the way, but it's finally made it. So far, it's available on the publisher website and BookStrand. Amazon, of course, is taking their sweet time, but it should be up soon.
I dedicated this book to Michael Crichton for some rather obvious...
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Jun.01.2012
Midnight calls. A cool breeze hugs me, whispering, welcome, and the indigo navy sky says hello. A fat white contrail squirming down the sky's middle is losing its grip, reflecting a silver waxing moon a few inches away. The moonseas are clear and calm, perfect for a sailing day. Minute white,...
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May.08.2012
The birds sing--reach my senses
as a bouquet of yellow freesia and pink sweet peas.
I sit up in bed, look out the window and a bright light is beaming at me;
it is the moon. I sit up taller and it's as though the moon is merely feet
away from the trees below and speaks to me--whispers, here I am....
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May.06.2012
It didn't look particularly huge last night - but it was amazingly white! I love the moon. . .and the sky. Venus and Jupiter were very visible.
"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or...
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May.04.2012
Moon,
bright, white orbsuspended in the sky.
Bella Luna,silvery moon,illuminating your starry eyes.
Moon,heavenly bodyat its perigee-Behold!The Super Moon.
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