We set our alarms for 1:45 AM. And when that time came, my body hardly recognized the alarm. Unsynchronized, I exited my
bed to stumble into the living room where Sarah seemed to have slept all night.
“Hey,” I said groggily.
“Yeah,” she mumbled.
We shuffled outside in our baggy pajamas and step out from beneath the breeze-way. We had gone out three hours earlier to
check on it. Then, it was a perfect circle hovering above the trees. It seems closer and brighter than usual. Maybe it was
because I was so focused, or maybe because I anticipated to much.
But there we stood, three hours later and though we had expected a dark sky and incandescent moon, we saw only the edges
blurred, like a tear to words of ink.
“Huh,” I stated.
“Come back out in 30?” Sarah asked, still observing the moon.
“Perhaps, in due time, maybe… tired? Hope, once.” Tease my body again? How could I?
After one more silent scrutiny we headed in. I vaguely remember flying to bed, in fact once fully awake the next morning, I
vaguely remember it at all.
“Did you go back out?” She asked, reaching for the chips.
“Heh, no. You?”
“At 2:30, it was definitely darker.”
“I’ll Google it.”
But it seems where ever I initiate a Google search, I end up looking up everything, become over stimulated with articles and
sites therefore forgetting my initial investigation. Yet I preserver!
For you poor souls who missed this because uninterrupted sleep is far more important… the next total lunar eclipse will be:
February 21, 2008.
The next total solar eclipse will be: August 1, 2008
Admission is free.