Its a full moon tonight. A harvest moon. Fuller and brighter than any average moon. Its stunning, bursting at the seams with bounty and hope. And it makes me feel the same way.
Do you know how sometimes you read something or you watch something at a certain point in your life and you see it a certain way? And then later, when you are in a different time and place in your life, you see it again and find a whole different meaning there? Life colors perception. But its so easy to forget in the moment, what color your glasses are.
I watched Cast Away for the first time a couple of years ago. It was a low point in my life. For various reasons and sometimes for no reason whatsoever, I was just sad. Lost and alone on an island without hope of rescue was a place I identified with strongly. I remember crying and wondering if anyone had ever before made a movie that so deeply reflected what I was feeling. All I saw was the sadness, the fear, the desolation because those were glasses I was wearing at the time.
Tonight, I watched it again. This time, under this brilliant harvest moon, I see the hope and the courage and the strength in him. I wonder how I missed it before as it seems so blatant now. I see how it was love that found him, love that saved him. Even when he didn't see it there.
Tonight, the moon is in my eyes.
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