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iPhone 11 Pro Max
orb of liquid gold
silhouetting bare black trees
beneath her fullness
Tonight’s soon to be Full Moon * already glowing bright in Lakeland at 4.21pm
* Friday 6th January 2023, 11.07pm
Betwixt Lakeland & Edinburgh
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iPhone 11 Pro Max
orb of liquid gold
silhouetting bare black trees
beneath her fullness
Tonight’s soon to be Full Moon * already glowing bright in Lakeland at 4.21pm
* Friday 6th January 2023, 11.07pm
Many are the magical sights to be seen in Edinburgh. Here, above a Holyrood structure aptly named Dynamic Earth, is a view of Salisbury Crags, formed over forty million years ago by the effects of Arthur’s Seat, the volcano now quietly presiding over them. And above and beyond still further, around 226,000 miles above and beyond to be a bit more precise, is tonight’s Full Moon. Oh, and there’s Jupiter! At their closest points Earth and Jupiter are 365 million miles away from each other. That I can even begin to perceive all of this at this time and in this place gives me a direct encounter with something beyond the reach of adequate explanation: awe.
Whether it’s the mind-stretching symmetry in the construction of individual snowflakes, or the paintings created everywhere in this season by fallen leaves, or sunlight on ocean waves, daffodils in Spring, sunrise, full moon, starry sky, or the colour and pattern in the iris of your eye – this world is an extraordinary creation! And all this came to mind in the course of my morning stretch and walk. Our minds, too, being nothing less than a wonder …