thoughts on the lunar eclipse

Did you see the eclipse the other day? Wow. The winter solstice, the full moon, and a lunar eclipse. Last time it happened all at once was 1682.

I saw nothin' but fog.

But I did go out and look up, and I remembered all the people who went out and looked up — shepherds, wise men — as well as a famous one, Galileo, who was sitting in jail the last time this eclipse happened.

So, this season, a prayer: that we may become more like the stargazers, the wonderers, the awestruck, the curious — and that the jails we all build for such people will burst open.

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