Did you see that moon?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t just mean that half-moon hanging at the top of the heavens tonite just after sunset, although that one casts a fine moon shadow when you\u2019re out late.<\/p>\n
I mean the moon that was there a week ago or so. Closer to the sun. Alongside Venus about the time, I guess, of Ramadan. Did you see it? And Venus? And did you see Jupiter? It was there, too. A conjunction it was. Remarkable to look at. Two wandering stars joining almost together and then wandering day by day apart.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re still out there just after sunset, Venus and Jupiter. Although the Ramadan moon has left them behind in its daily eastward march. And Jupiter is is fleeing Venus now, or is it the other way around?<\/p>\n
The other night we were out at the track, the Fair and Industrious Trudy and I. And we gazed at them, Venus and Jupiter. They made a line segment in the sky. Brilliant Venus on the left. Jupiter on the right. A horizontal line segment in the truest sense.<\/p>\n
I just wanted to ask you about that. If you\u2019d seen it. It was something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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