I found myself awake in the very early hours as some people do.
So, stepping out on to the landing I looked out at the dark morning sky. With little cloud showing, wispy for the most part, the sky was clear enough that some stars were showing.
The Crescent Moon was rising. Looking carefully, you could see the outline of the whole moon as just a shadow of light. Contradictory I know. The pale shape looming large as it hovered above the horizon. The optical illusion of size created as it does when it stands close to the plain or in this case a treelined range of hills.
But what confused me was I was seeing two Crescent Moons. A second hovering above and to the side. It was a ghost moon.
I rubbed my eyes to clear it from my vision, but it still it was there.
So, I closed one eye and then the other. Yet still there were two moons.
Maybe it was because I was looking through a screen, so I moved around. But still the ghostly shape of the second moon stayed in that same place.
My eyes were playing tricks on me my brain was saying, there is only one moon!
But in my imagination, I speculated.
Then I wondered, what an amazing thing it would be. My thoughts turned to strange worlds one day to be explored, where it is likely you could plainly see more than one natural satellite out in the sky.
This all of course just a rambling mind wandering off in strange directions in a sleepy daze.
Yet how wonderful a thing it is to just imagine. To let your thoughts and imagination wander away and create the possible and maybe even the impossible.
Because when you do, sometimes out of all this can come something worthy of thought and worthy of making a reality.
There is only one Moon, or maybe there was two. But there are always many possibilities!
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