It’s here, the
magnificent moment when you think you can reach out and touch the moon. Sunday
night the moon will be the closest to earth this year. And because of the
magnification of the atmosphere, at moon rise, the moon will appear bigger than
ever before! And in fact, that would be true – it is 14% bigger than usual and much brighter. 
Welcome to the
perigee moon, also called the Supermoon.
Even though the
moon will “exert 42% more tidal force … compared to spring tides …that coincide
with the apogee next January,” it is forecast that tides won’t be exceptionally
high (news.yahoo.com/supermoon-rises-weekend-night-sky…)
Amazingly, there
will be webcasts of this great event. SPACE.com will be covering it with their
Slooh Space Camera. (The link button isn't working - click on this link or cut and paste it into your browser http://www.space.com/21682-supermoon-full-moon-webcast-slooh.html).
I wonder if
there will be an increase in “human activity” tonight. Of course, to the naked
eye, the moon looked full Saturday night and will look full on Monday night so
I wonder if this is going to be a super busy weekend for hyperactive humans. Guess
I’ll read about it tomorrow.
I wonder, Don, could this have been the cause of your technical problems? Maybe Mercury is in retrograde along with the moon being at its best.
In the meantime,
I’ve been finishing my Tracker story which is due for publication in August. I’m
down to the last act, as Don would say. I’ve found this story to be
particularly interesting to write. I have an outline, but I’m finding that it
is squishy. I know the ending, but how I get there keeps changing.
I have also
found that it has interfered with my activities. On Monday I ran into some
situations that I couldn’t resolve. When this happens, I pull back, go walking
or shopping. In this case, we took two days off to go see the grandkids. 
The questions in
the story that needed to be answered presented themselves to me in the middle
of the night. The answers waited until lunch the next day to present themselves
– and it became imperative that I go home – even though I wrote notes, my husband
could not drive fast enough. I don’t travel with my laptop, I like to take a
couple of days to not be “plugged in” – I also consider it rude to work while I’m
visiting. This time I should have taken it.
Talking to my
husband about the insistent need to get back to the story, he asked who was in
control - me or the characters? Good question. I get a bit distracted and
disconnected with the world when I’m working on a story or some creative adventure. I remember that this used to happen when I was designing a new water color quilt. I think it has something to do with creativity denied. Maybe I can blame it on the moon...
Time to go – Act
3 is impatiently waiting.
Don, your riddle is good! I'm not sure, but my guess is mouth.
And for you I
have:
Stirrer
of Air
Loud racket or whisper soft
Needed only at certain times
Images
downloaded from Google images:
Super Moon to Rise Saturday Night/ksdk retrieved from www.ksdk.com
Super
Full Moon Nasa Science retrieved from science.nasa.gov
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