{"id":1285,"date":"2011-10-21T07:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2011-10-21T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T14:39:41","slug":"october-moonrise-one-of-the-wonders-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/21\/october-moonrise-one-of-the-wonders-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"October Moonrise: One of the Wonders of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/43-october.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-936\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/43-october.jpg?resize=360%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>A few nights ago as I stood on this lovely hilltop I call home, I was witness to one of the seven (thousandmillion) wonders of the world, an enormous pumpkin moon rising over the hills in the east.\u00a0 It happened to be the birthday of two dear friends and as I pondered birthdays, and life ticking on, the rising moon was a visible manifestation of time passing.\u00a0 I could see the earth turning as the moon rose, at first a slim sliver, a sweet slice of cantaloupe resting on the hills to the east, but within minutes the moon was fully birthed, a shining coin, a golden pumpkin. \u00a0And there I stood, a lucky little map pin, on the spinning globe of life.\u00a0 There are few opportunities to truly feel ourselves resting on this whirling home we call earth.\u00a0 Watching the moonrise is one of those awe-inspiring moments where we become aware of the grandeur of the universe.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had a similar feeling watching the sunrise through sleepy eyes from the tiny window of an airplane after a restless eastbound redeye.\u00a0 It seems you can see the curvature of the earth as the plane catches up with a morning already bustling just in the distance. \u00a0From up above you observe the future; you are, for a moment, a Greek god high above the jostle and gyrations of humankind.\u00a0 Looking out over the crashing waves on a north coast beach, watching the water roll in from beyond our vision and our imagination gives a similar sermon; we are just specks, in the flow of time, a mere grain of sand in the universe.\u00a0 To some this may seem a forbidding, gloomy take on human existence, but to me it is liberating.\u00a0 I am not Atlas with the earth on my shoulders; I am just a spec of sand sharing this moment with the sand fleas and the seaweed with nothing better to do than seek the next wonder of the world revealed in the spaces between sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow this link to see art for sale from past blog posts <a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/mandala.html\">Lisa\u2019s Website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few nights ago as I stood on this lovely hilltop I call home, I was witness to one of the seven (thousandmillion) wonders of the world, an enormous pumpkin moon rising over the hills in the east.\u00a0 It happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[88],"tags":[307,536,678],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-earths-rotation","tag-moon-rise","tag-seven-wonders-of-the-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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