beware the ides of  march or be aware of the middle of march… what i’m aware of is being in a moment, a long moment of great turning with the most powerful moon of the year happening in a matter of hours and giving us the opportunity to turn greatly and be the more beautiful world we already are…

When we look down on the Earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also… looks extremely fragile.

Ron Garan, NASA Astronaut

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

~ Carl Sagan ~

bathed in the phosphorescence of ocean’s vast space….