WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.110 align:middle line:90%


00:00:01.110 --> 00:00:04.305 align:middle line:90%
This one, too, if you--

00:00:04.305 --> 00:00:06.840 align:middle line:90%


00:00:06.840 --> 00:00:10.050 align:middle line:90%
perhaps now that I've said it--

00:00:10.050 --> 00:00:13.545 align:middle line:84%
might also be a teaching piece
or something to learn from.

00:00:13.545 --> 00:00:18.900 align:middle line:90%


00:00:18.900 --> 00:00:23.610 align:middle line:84%
And this has to do with
people observing the Moon.

00:00:23.610 --> 00:00:28.590 align:middle line:84%
And I learned this from
my father and my mother,

00:00:28.590 --> 00:00:30.690 align:middle line:84%
about the different
phases of the Moon.

00:00:30.690 --> 00:00:36.450 align:middle line:84%
And the new Moon, when
it's just a little sliver,

00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:40.920 align:middle line:84%
if it's tilted, they'll say it's
going to rain, because it looks

00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:42.885 align:middle line:90%
like it's emptying its content.

00:00:42.885 --> 00:00:45.900 align:middle line:90%


00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:48.570 align:middle line:84%
So I've been thinking
about that for a long time.

00:00:48.570 --> 00:00:54.660 align:middle line:84%
And I saw a woman a
couple of years ago.

00:00:54.660 --> 00:00:56.790 align:middle line:84%
It was late spring,
and it wasn't

00:00:56.790 --> 00:00:59.920 align:middle line:90%
going to be raining any time.

00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:04.349 align:middle line:84%
And it was at a bus stop
over on Rodger Road,

00:01:04.349 --> 00:01:07.600 align:middle line:84%
and it was about 10
o'clock in the morning.

00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:11.910 align:middle line:84%
And she was wearing
a rain poncho,

00:01:11.910 --> 00:01:13.990 align:middle line:90%
and it didn't look like rain.

00:01:13.990 --> 00:01:17.880 align:middle line:90%
So this is how that one starts.

00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:21.795 align:middle line:84%
And I just called it
"Sliver of a Moon."

00:01:21.795 --> 00:01:25.290 align:middle line:90%


00:01:25.290 --> 00:01:29.340 align:middle line:84%
"I saw a woman wearing a
rain poncho at the bus stop.

00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:33.180 align:middle line:84%
She did not look up at
the Moon last night.

00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:37.500 align:middle line:84%
A sliver of a Moon does not
beckon you to gaze upward.

00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:40.260 align:middle line:84%
A full one, on the
other hand, does.

00:01:40.260 --> 00:01:47.100 align:middle line:84%
It calls, nearly shouts with
light to look up, and we do.

00:01:47.100 --> 00:01:51.240 align:middle line:84%
An average human is
50% to 70% water.

00:01:51.240 --> 00:01:53.880 align:middle line:84%
The moisture in the
mouth, nostrils,

00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:57.090 align:middle line:84%
and the fluid the
eyeballs must float in,

00:01:57.090 --> 00:01:59.160 align:middle line:84%
the moistness in
the ears competing

00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:02.820 align:middle line:84%
with wax and other debris,
not to mention other larger

00:02:02.820 --> 00:02:05.550 align:middle line:84%
bodies of moisture
pulsating through the heart

00:02:05.550 --> 00:02:10.289 align:middle line:84%
and our arteries, making its
way through all the filters.

00:02:10.289 --> 00:02:14.370 align:middle line:84%
We are, after all,
mere plumbing.

00:02:14.370 --> 00:02:17.070 align:middle line:84%
There were three silver
Moons this year--

00:02:17.070 --> 00:02:20.850 align:middle line:84%
a full moon so close
to the Earth, so white

00:02:20.850 --> 00:02:23.160 align:middle line:90%
appearing silver.

00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:25.290 align:middle line:90%
I went out in this light.

00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:30.210 align:middle line:84%
The shadows were well defined,
almost as if it was Sunlight.

00:02:30.210 --> 00:02:34.140 align:middle line:84%
But even such a Moon did
not forecast rain the way

00:02:34.140 --> 00:02:37.200 align:middle line:90%
a new Moon can.

00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:42.720 align:middle line:84%
A sliver, a shard, a slice,
an early phase of the Moon

00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:46.770 align:middle line:84%
is not worthy of a
tilt of the head.

00:02:46.770 --> 00:02:49.650 align:middle line:84%
The woman at the bus stop
did not look up at the Moon

00:02:49.650 --> 00:02:50.940 align:middle line:90%
last night.

00:02:50.940 --> 00:02:54.120 align:middle line:84%
If she had had, she would have
seen the slight bowl was not

00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.000 align:middle line:84%
tilted enough to
spill its contents,

00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.450 align:middle line:84%
and would have known a
rain poncho on this morning

00:03:00.450 --> 00:03:01.995 align:middle line:90%
would not have been a choice."

00:03:01.995 --> 00:03:04.540 align:middle line:90%


00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:06.410 align:middle line:90%
So look up.

00:03:06.410 --> 00:03:07.000 align:middle line:90%