Part 9.   My 65th Birthday

The setting Moon at 5:30am

Today should be a time for reflection, and a look back on my life.   Instead I will duck the issue and just post a picture of the moon this morning as it was setting to the west over the rocky mountains, as seen from the Englewood Colorado train station platform.   I rode down there on my bike in the dark just to see it.

A brief and beautiful moment.  An ephemeral blink of an eye, lost in time's engulfing seas, where each of us, and everything around us, will eventually return. 

Jan once said to me, as we were walking alone together one night "The moon is a ghostly galleon, set upon cloudy seas".    I don't know where she got it from, and I never asked, but I have always remembered it.  40 years ago now.     Funny the things that stay with us.


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