(What a surprise!)

I went outside to see what my back yard looks like at 3 in the morning.

And there in the eastern sky, surrounded by only the brightest of stars was a yellowish quarter moon, looking for all the world like the floating smile of the Cheshire Cat. I held my breath, waiting for the head and body and tail to appear, but I guess he was too sly to let me see him. The illusion remained however, that though we see black sky with tiny lights from our vantage point, in fact, the universe is ablaze with light and there is a curtain of black that protects us from being overwhelmed by it's glory.

It's not darkness sprinkled with light, but Light partially clothed in darkness.

One of these days.... that curtain will be pulled back. And we will never be the same.

The Cheshire Cat, The Man in the Moon, Sol, and Orion, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will dance before us unclothed. You just wait. One day it will happen.

You can thank me for letting you know ahead of time.

I'll be waiting . . . with the Cheshire Cat smile on my face.