Looking Up

2nd August 2012

Easy to see the full moon tonight after the window cleaner came this afternoon. A harvest moon. A time to gather in the fruits of summer. My husband comes home with bags of smooth red and  gold potatoes - crumbly black earth clinging to their skins, a clutch of giant knobbly garlic bulbs which we brought back from Madeira last year, two small pale green courgettes and a bunch of sweetpeas - the colours of early sunset  - mauve and lavender, shell pink and violet. Their intense fragrance mingles with the scent of freshly dug garlic and I start thinking about supper.....

What I  can’t get it out of my mind are the pictures of the UFO over the Olympic park on Friday- hovering above the explosion of fireworks - a domed potato moon in the sky - reminding me to keep looking up. 

I love what Denise Lynn says about this. She says for her the opposite of fear is faith and that looking up is stepping beyond fear into faith.....

‘Having faith that there is a higher power - there is.

Having faith that your life is guided - it is.

Having faith that there is a hole in the clouds - it’s there, you just need to look up.’

Then you might see the moon. Or a UFO.