Redeeming My Time
Matthew J. Peterson, ABD

The Clarity of Moonlit Nights

August 5th 2009 in Beauty, Nature

A moonlit evening unveils a wondrous claritas to the senses.  While true of many circumstances in which the air is exceptionally clear, the light in the darkness has unique way of shortening the height of trees and the distances between things, inviting one to walk the universe at will with the heavens seemingly close at hand.  The experience always seems to heighten the distance between the man made and the natural as well.  Never does the car seem more noticeably (and awkwardly) present than when man happens to observe it sitting in a driveway lit by the moon, mildly marring the view of the lawns and trees in the midst of the soft, natural sounds of the night.


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Kay
wrote on April 2nd, 2010

I think this is very true in that fact and I like how you said how people naturally feel closer to the earth at night and how man made things…like cars…really do look akward in the night, when all is silent and a clunk of metal junk is just sitting there. True. :D




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