Musings on the Moon.

This week I have found myself feeling somewhat lacklustre. Is it the because it's grip of winter, there's a lack of food in my fridge or the reaction I had to all the Mexican food I ate in the weekend? Can I do the rap to all of Shaggy's "It wasn't me" ?
The answer to these questions is perhaps.

I'm about to take on a massive challenge that is volunteering in Cambodia teaching dance, and am trying to get as much writing for my new show and other things done before I go, so have begun to burn the candle at both ends. 
My body is sore and tender from life, burpees and rehearsing for a gig I have the day before I go.

As I was editing the track I'm performing to, I couldn't help but stop myself and realise how the lyrics in such a timely fashion instantly put things in perspective. It made me think how music and lyrics are so fantastic that they can do this, so thought I'd share it with you.

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft

And you feel that you've had quite enough

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour

That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned

A sun that is the source of all our power

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see

Are moving at a million miles a day

In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour

Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'

Thank you Eric Idle and the rest of Monty Python for the beautiful Galaxy Song (look it up next time you are perusing YouTube)

It was a full moon last night. A full clear moon, far far away in the sky. I have looked up at that same moon all through my life. So have you. There's been times when I've been happy, you've been sad, and we have looked at the same moon. Or vice versa. I've looked at the moon with someone who I don't look at it with anymore. I've looked at it in places I used to go but don't anymore. It's still there, beaming down in whatever phase it is, regardless of how we change, grow and come up against the bad and the good. 

I like to think of the Man in the Moon as my mate. As the nice old man at the local green grocer who gives you extra ripe bananas because he knows you make a lot of smoothies. His constant gentle smile is unwavering. Sometimes he's hidden, but he's still there, giving you a reassuring look, that he will be there for you tomorrow night, and the one after that.

It's a comforting feeling, isn't it? How space is so vast and complex but can seem so simple because it's far away. I guess this week, that's what I needed. To put things a little but further away to see their vastness and beauty.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, do yourself a favour and take some time to look at the moon;

because sometimes, we just need some space.

Jj