  Wow. What a day. Driving down the interstate tonight, listening to Lisa Gerard (thanks Colette) I was awed when i came over a hill and saw just above the horizon a red moon. Not yellow, not Pinkish, fucking RED. Now, scientifically, I know why this happens. When the Moon is in the Earth's shadow, there is some sunlight that still passes through our atmosphere at an angle. White light from the sun is composed of all the colors of the rainbow, but our atmosphere aint exactly equal opportunity. It treats colors differently. Blue-colored light is scattered in all directions by particles that make up the atmosphere.
That, Virginia, is why the sky is blue. Red-colored light, however, has much longer waves, and is scattered very little. But it is refracted toward the Moon. This Red light hits the Moon and is reflected back toward Earth, so that we see the Moon glowing red. It only happens at the right alignment of Sun earth and moon, when the Moon is really low in the sky.
Usually it is accompanied by an eclipse. Cerebrally i know this. But it does not do justice or capture the awe of the vision. I think no matter how far science progresses, things like this will always seem more portentous than that. They should. For my part, I will take it as a sign. Today was... truly... I try not to make generalities about life. I think life is far too maleable and ever changing to capture an aspect of its essence in any statement, let alone a general one. However, there are a few generalities i cling to, for they still ring true. In life, we tend to repeat those lessons that we do not learn the first time. 
