"Waxing" Poetic

I realize how meloncholy these blogs have become...maybe it is because of the approaching holidays and realizing that I have no family around. But each blog makes me think of something else.

The moon waxes and wanes. You can remember which it is doing by the letters DOC. If the curved shape of the moon is like the curved part of the D the moon is waxing (getting more full), the O is when it is full, then when it starts to wane the curved shape is like the curve of the C. During the darkest parts of the moon's phases when it goes from waning to waxing, when it is a "new" moon (or sometimes called a dark moon) it represents the beginning of the moon's phases and for centuries farmers have felt that it was the best time to plant new seeds because the ground was more fertile. As the moon grows (waxes) and finally comes to completion (fullness) farmers knew that by then, the seeds which were going to survive would have taken root and blossomed.

Why am I going into all this? Well for one, to make a point about technology for my students. This observation of the moons cycles is a very low tech, effective method of planting. But also to make a parallel of our lives. I think back over the last year and the trials I have gone through. I think back over this blog and the trials I have gone through in Seattle. Those were the times of the darkest moons in my life. That is when the seeds of growth and change were planted. Now I just have to learn PATIENCE and wait for the full moon (fulfillment) to see which ones will have taken root and blossomed.

My lesson for today is patience...