The moon's taking up the sun, half-moon, and for the first time (it feels like the first time) I'm seeing the moon as a physical object, a big round ball of rock just sitting there (moving, sure, but it looks like it's just plonked down there up there), and it really is like the 4th grade science teacher shining a flashlight on a baseball in a dark room, the sunlight coming from there, right there.
I feel like (tonight) I can tell exactly where the sun is in relation to me on the other side of the earth but not directly below my feet. I have a sense of the size of the moon and the size of the sun and as a result a pretty good feeling for how far apart they are from one another and from me. It's weird because I usually just see a flat disk up there and the sense of its depth is really dramatic right now.
It feels like the moon is the "lovers' sphere" because of its untraversable proximity. The moon, like all lovers, is so close, so freaking close compared to everything else in space, everything that is mind-scramblingly distant and inconceivable, but still so impossibly far away. You just can't get there and really touch it.
nice last para
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