{"id":5474,"date":"2026-08-28T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:57:38","slug":"when-the-moon-comes-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5474","title":{"rendered":"when the moon comes full"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was aware of the full moon last night<br>even had a good gaze at it<br>through bleary tired eyes<br>up<br>through<br>the<br>trees<br>just before bed<br>and it was<br>beautifully bright<br>something I try <br>not<br>to miss, a beautiful moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>blurred shots of light through branches<br>remind me most<br>just how very tired<br>I<br>was<br><br>in the night<br>I had to get up to pee<br>finding the bathroom spectacularly lit<br>I was instantly reminded to look out the window<br>to the brilliant source of light<br>in a beauty-filled sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>turned out to be the perfect time<br>to witness<br>the partial lunar eclipse<br>and how wonderful&#8230; you know<br>being drawn<br>to<br>notice<br><br>outside in the garden, looking up at the beautiful blue<br>of an afternoon sky<br>I smile at the puffy white clouds<br>in shapes that appear to form a big fluffy poodle<br>exuberant and joyful<br>ready to<br>bound<br>only a few minutes later<br>a lovely cottony white blanket<br>ascends overhead<br>as<br>comfort<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">in the front gardens<br>the asters have begun to show<br>and this, only slightly<br>bittersweet<br>tugs a little<br><br><em>\u201cWhen daisies sweet and lilies pied :<br>When summer roses all have died,<br>Thro&#8217; August fields, with stately stride,<br>There comes the splendid aster. \u201c<br>~ Robert Kirkland Kernighan<\/em><br><br>of course, not that I hadn\u2019t already been feeling<br>the season\u2019s gentle fade<br>it does so have a lovely way though, doesn\u2019t it<br>twice this morning I heard geese flying over<br><br>actually spoke a few words with a small clump of moss<br>I passed on my way home today<br>feeling the need to<br>apologize that we&#8230; humans<br>continue to make living environments<br>so<br>impossible<br>for each other<br><br>while back at home, I am sat here<br>in the peacefulness<br>of my garden<br>sharing thoughts to quite possibly<br>no one<br>out into the ether they go<br>like delicate wisps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and still&#8230;<br>that\u2019s not nothing<br><br>whilst thinking to myself<br>how very kind<br>that the lady at the flower shop<br>was just so lovely today<br>when I<br>stopped<br>in \u2665 <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was aware of the full moon last nighteven had a good gaze at itthrough bleary tired eyesupthroughthetreesjust before bedand it wasbeautifully brightsomething I try notto miss, a beautiful moon blurred shots of light through branchesremind me mostjust how very&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5474\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,446,223,1325,1324,74,85],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beingkindness","tag-inthiswritersgarden","tag-noticelife","tag-partiallunareclipse","tag-sturgeonmoon","tag-toyouthisday","tag-writelife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5477,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/5477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}