{"id":558,"date":"2025-08-08T02:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:07:02","slug":"%f0%9f%8c%96%f0%9f%8c%95%f0%9f%8c%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/%f0%9f%8c%96%f0%9f%8c%95%f0%9f%8c%94\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf16\ud83c\udf15\ud83c\udf14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>on viewing the full moon, i see three moons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>should i attune myself so that I see a single moon, and continue seeing one moon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or is my gift to see three moons, and continue seeing a multiplicity of moons?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or is my gift the gift of inner blindness, that doesn&#8217;t see a thing, but instead describes it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>calm yourself, child. the busy world is too busy to calm you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>let whatever moon, or multiplicity of moons that might appear, appear, and let them calm you. let the rhythm of the moon appear, and in appearing, calm you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>appearances are just appearances: one two three, coming and going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>calm yourself in the rhythms of coming and going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>favor the coming and going of the moon-or-moons over the rhythms of the busy world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whether one or three, the moon is calm, and calling for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>calm yourself, child. the world&#8217;s too busy to do it for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>calm yourself, child, in whatever rhythms you entrain to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on viewing the full moon, i see three moons. should i attune myself so that I see a single moon, and continue seeing one moon? or is my gift to see three moons, and continue seeing a multiplicity of moons? or is my gift the gift of inner blindness, that doesn&#8217;t see a thing, but &#8230; <a title=\"\ud83c\udf16\ud83c\udf15\ud83c\udf14\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/%f0%9f%8c%96%f0%9f%8c%95%f0%9f%8c%94\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \ud83c\udf16\ud83c\udf15\ud83c\udf14\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,6,14,26,16,9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicle","category-neighborhood","category-neurodiversity","category-personal-narrative","category-poem","category-reflection","category-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-90","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":290,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/26\/knowing-they-are-needed\/","url_meta":{"origin":558,"position":0},"title":"Poem: Knowing They Are Needed","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"May 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"KNOWING THEY ARE NEEDED Organizers can go to bed early,\u2028and wake up refreshed.\u2028Fire tenders, blind to time, tend to stay upall night, crafting, restless. 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