Night in Door County

THIS IS IN MOONLIGHT [I wrote this really big over a whole page of my diary on a magical night, outside, with only moonlight to see by]


Moonlight so silvery bright and unmarred by city lights you could see by it
Stars bright of course too
I really got why people would worship the cycles of the moon and have reverence for darkness, because while the sun shines everything is brightly illuminated but at night the moon is the one brightest thing, and its light is silvery and casts everything in a mystical and half-real glow, so barely there that nature seems to shape-shift




MY ENGAGEMENT RING AS THE CYCLES OF THE MOON

Diamonds flanking sapphire = waxing or waning moon
Sapphire is full moon (as in “once in a blue moon”) dark moon [“everybody knows you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon” –Tori Amos] ocean “my heart is black as the blackest ocean” –Tori [it’s a very dark sapphire, which I love]




SAPPHIRE = SKY

--link between cycles of moon and tides of ocean [and a woman’s menstrual cycle]


darkness and light are of the same creature, like an eye that burns light blue and then dark [that’s what my sapphire does], like a sea black at night but radiant with the blue sky’s reflection in the day

[writing on bracelet mom bought me, The Serenity Prayer]:

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.”