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[threeplusfire]

When I drove home at four this morning, the moon was so bright I could see clearly without my headlights. I stood in the driveway, smoking and staring at the sky. The halo round the moon was bigger than I've ever noticed before, and there were sounds on the wind. It was cold and beautiful and I almost called someone before I realized that it was extremely early and that might just be a bit weird. "Hi, I wanted to share this absolutely gorgeous night sky with you, which I realize you can't see because you're snowed under in New York right now." But it felt like something more than real, and the moonlight was the color of Lothlorien in the films.

Jim woke me up at 9am with a phone call. I felt terrible, but when he said he was in trouble I sat up and tried to be coherent for him. Something he thought he paid off a year ago has come up again and the bank is threatening to sue him if he didn't come up with the money by the end of the day. He was miserable and sad, and I tried to convince him to see someone to help straighten out his finances and work stuff out in the hopes that the bank is just bluffing to try and get him to cough up money.

My head aches, for some unknown reason. It may just be the interrupted sleep, or squinting at maps. Could be the cold.

Comments

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

I have felt the same way many times- calling people on my cell on the road to shriek "lookit the rainbow!", lovely Moons, and so on. People get too locked into their couches or monitors or whatever, I figure it's good for 'em. Keep it up!

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes you just want someone else to look at it too. I will try not to call people at 4am though. ;)