Salute!

Friday, October 18, 2024

This AI-generated header image reflects my pleasure yesterday evening while watching this season’s lovely Hunter Moon. I planned to photograph this special moon before realizing my camera’s battery needed charging. So, I took a chair to my property’s highest hill and sat, sipping wine and reflecting.

Bright moonlight lit the evening sky. The combo felt warm, and my wine helped. I spent too much of the earlier hours working physically, shoveling and moving dirt from one section of my property to another, filling spots made bare by horse hooves.

Horse-keepers have few restful moments. We constantly spot areas prime for repairs. I needed last night’s clear sky, moonlight, wine, and especially time doing nothing.

Well, not “nothing,” because my brain was busy thinking about my lack of time to read the books stacked and waiting for me, about ongoing brutalities in Ukraine, the Middle East, Sudan, and Myanmar, and about the too-tight race between America’s presidential candidates.

The mind is a wonder, an attribute capable of adjusting and offsetting stress. Last evening’s mild temperature and sky beauties refocused me, making worries routine and not overwhelming.

Dear Friends: Fall weather turning colder means fewer sit-out evenings ahead. Diana