Tonight was Mid-Autumn Festival. I had some plans for moongazing, but they didn't quite pan out. =/ So I took the mooncake that I had, cut it up, and distributed it to the Chinese folk I knew here at the honors dorms. Then I went out onto the Blanton balcony and admired the moon by myself. It was... calming. The celestial bodies always fill me with a sense of wonder: thinking about how fast they must be travelling, yet they appear to just hang there effortlessly in the sky; how large everything is, yet how tiny they appear. How serene the moon looks from so far away.


静夜思
李白
 
床前明月光
疑是地上霜
舉頭望明月
低頭思故鄉

[I saw the moonlight before my bed,
And wondered if it were not frost on the ground.
I raised my head towards the glowing moon,
I bowed my head and thought of my far-away home.]
~ Li Bai - "thoughts on a tranquil night"