From: Robert Schneider (rjschn39@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sat Nov 08 2003 - 21:26:20 EST
Those of us who live on Deck Hill overlooking Boone, in the Blue Ride Mountains of western North Carolina, were blessed with a clear sky during the early evening. So my wife and I watched the moon in its fullness as the shadow descended over it. A little before 8 p.m. I went out on the front porch in my down coat--it's a cold mountain evening here--and sat and watched Sister Moon as the eclipse went into totality. Except for the traffic down on US 321 all was quiet, as in her gentle and less spectacular way from Brother Sun, she was covered.
We who live in the age of science have a different explanation from other peoples who believed that some animal or demon swallowed the moon, and or saw an eclipse as portending some significant and perhaps fearful event. Yet the view of the moon in eclipse was no less awe-inspiring. A beautiful thing was this eclipse, and any thing of beauty is worth a prayer of thanks to the Creator whose universe contains so many delights for us who live in this tiny corner of it.
Grace and peace,
Bob Schneider
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