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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Dec 30, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2D23316D002EEED370000AC9B38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > Today is a Black Moon (second new/dark moon in a calendar month).   
   >   
   > "the fairy queen and the black moonshine" (Figgy Duff)   
   >   
   > "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" (Pink Floyd)   
   >   
   > It is also Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute.   
      
   “sons of long forgotten races, that the darkest night embraces”   
   (Ron Hynes and Declan O’Doherty; I’m not sure which of   
   them wrote that line; comment if you know)   
      
   But of course the dark moon is up in the daytime, not   
   nighttime, and it may shine a bit with reflected blue   
   Earthlight, but I doubt that was responsible for my   
   blue rose vision pre-dawn Sept. 6, 1991 in Vancouver.   
      
   It is also the dark moon closest to the winter solstice,   
   and is cloudy here in St. John’s, so it is truly the   
   darkest night, though it would be darker if I was   
   out around the bay, as I was for Christmas.   
      
   Happy New Year (“hug many”) in advance to any readers.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And now the angry morning; Gives the early signs of warning; You must   
   face alone the plans you make; Decisions they will try to break" (S. McL.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)