In Sight...

She had always struggled with capturing the moon.

It was one of her greatest frustrations.

Everything else she had set out to do she had done. But the moon? The moon eluded her.

When she was a child she had thought the moon was a giant cookie hung in the sky. She would lay in her bed and look out the window, watching it disappear each night, bite by bite, then reappear the same way. When she first heard about the Milky Way she nodded, it made sense that there would be milk to go with the cookie.

When she was a teenager she went to the ocean for the first time. She watched the waves roll in and back out. The woman with her warned that there would be a particularly high tide that evening. The moon was full.

The moon could control the oceans? The endless waves, the deepest waters? The moon could do that?

That and so much more.

The crazies come out with the full moon.

The darkest evenings where there is no moon are the most dangerous.

The moon in her ever changing glory controlled everything.

That was when she decided she needed to own the moon.

It was right there for the taking. Why shouldn't she do it?

She could reach her hand up and practically touch it.

Pluck it from the sky and put it in her pocket.

But it refused to be caught.

She had everything else she had ever set her sights on.

But she had always struggled with capturing the moon.

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Okay, so that's the start. It's not her story. Not yet. It's not much of anything but some feelings I have about her. It all started with a photo this morning on my Facebook feed. A friend had dug out his camera and was taking pictures of the SUPER MOON (TA DA) last night. Another friend who is a professional photographer said, "I have always struggled capturing the moon."

And it was a moment.

I turned the phrase over and over in my head. This is going in a story somehow. I don't know how, just yet. Is it going to be metaphorical? Is it going to be literal? Someone can actually capture the moon? What is it?

So I sat down and wrote what popped into my head about it. This is the sort of stuff that generally goes in a folder on my desktop and I look at it here and there until something bigger forms around it.

But, as you all know, every once in awhile I like to put it up here. To let that idea out into the wild and give it a little room in your heads too. Just to see what shape that makes it take.

I have always struggled capturing the moon....

Who are you? What else do you do?

I'm looking forward to finding out.