There was an extraordinary and beautiful lunar eclipse, a luna rossa, and I saw it through our bedroom window in Le Marche! What surprised me, aside from the lovely red-gold cast of the light bouncing off the moon, was the softness of the earth's shadow on it.
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| photo of June 15,2011 lunar eclipse by space.com |
The Vancouver Canucks, after a 3-3 tie with the Boston Bruins, lost the Stanley Cup. It was a bad loss, too: 4-0! I could feel the heartache drift across the North American continent and reach all the way across the Atlantic to here. So close... and yet so....defeated. I have to whisper that I'm not really a hockey fan, but even I was very glumly disappointed! My Canadian hometown team, the Canucks, had tempted the odds by coming so close to winning what even an adopted-Canadian, like me, knows is the fabled chalice of the Stanley Cup.
Though I shared in the disappointment, what I didn't feel was the anger that ensued and ensnared fans. A riot broke out in downtown Vancouver, a typically law-abiding and pretty sane place, and the pictures I see of it are awful: cars set afire and overturned, bottes thrown, looting, police in riot gear, tear gas. But hockey, man, that's evidently cutting close to the bone.
I live here in Italy right now, and in my present world there was this exceptional lunar eclipse -- the first I'd ever seen so clearly. I take great pleasure from that very particular experience. It was a leap to a larger dimension: a window on the movements of a universe.
Today's Painting
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| Starsoup for Supper, painting by Janet Strayer |
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