Lunacy: Mid 16th Cent. Originally referring to intermittent
insanity believed to be caused by
changes of the moon. From lunatic + -acy
Lunatic: Middle English; from Old French lunatique;
from Latin luna (moon)
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Confession: The other night a writer friend and I mistook the rising
moon for the setting sun.
"How,"
you might ask, "is such a thing possible?" We were driving in a
caravan with several other people on darkened roads en route to see the star-filled sky. We arrived at the appointed spot and jumped
out of the car, eager to watch the remains of the huge yellowy-orange sun set
in the vast purple-black sky starting to fill with constellations. We watched,
enraptured, and then my friend and I looked at one another and said, "Wait.
Did you see that? Is the sun higher in the sky now? Wasn't it lower a
second ago? What's going on?"
No
one else seemed to be alarmed by the apparently rising sun at 9:30 at night. We
kept watching. We heard someone say "moon." And then we knew. We were watching
the rising of the full moon! An enormous yellowy-orange full moon. And we
started to laugh. Laughter that doubled us over. Laughter that infected several
of the people around us who didn't know what was so funny, but who were happy
to laugh along with us. Laughter that made our stomachs hurt. Laughter that
didn't stop. The laughter of lunacy.
Earlier
that morning this same writer friend and I had been in a situation where
someone reminded us to expect emotions to run high and to expect the unexpected
because of the full moon. (It fact it seems this particular full moon was such it generated this article: http://www.feelguide.com/2015/06/02/this-week-full-sagittarius-moon-in-mercury-retrograde-is-wreaking-havoc-on-nearly-everyone/) And earlier that evening this same friend and I had
been at dinner with a writer talking about the wonderful subtleties and lessons
of the movie "Moonstruck". We should have known.
"Those people who recognize that the imagination is reality’s master
"Those people who recognize that the imagination is reality’s master
we call
sages, and those who act upon it we call artists or lunatics." - Tom Robbins
In the spirit
of imagination being reality's master, we've decided not only did the full moon
indeed cause our momentary disorientation, but we've also decided it makes
perfect artistic sense for creative people like us to turn the rising moon into
the setting sun. Why not? More people should try it. And if a flexing of the
imagination is accompanied by the uncontrollable laughter of lunacy, even
better. Better for our stories and better for ourselves.
I
wonder what my imagination will generate during the next full moon.
And what
will your imagination create?
Join me in the lunacy!
(c) drydenbks LLC 2015
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