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September 09, 2006
One Moon
After an errand in Jersey that took much more time than we anticipated, we took the kids to look at the island where they grew up in. It was just getting dark and the small parks overlooking the view across the Hudson slowly filled with shadows and muted conversations. Azmina had just woken up from her nap and still had not warmed up to the idea. She had been bothered by a canker sore and had ealier told us that she won't be talking as much that day. Farizah was predictably happy to be in a space where she could be free to do her own thing. She quickly assimilated into the scene, playing and making friends with kids years older than her, simply by smiling, mimicking their actions and just by being honest.
Maybe because of the partial lunar eclipse that could be seen from other parts of the world, the moon has been bright yellow for the last few nights. I've no distinct memory that I can relate to the moment, except for a feeling that we were on the road the last time when it told us to slow down and remember things that are nearly forgotten. I think it was after our grocery shopping in Queens a couple of years ago with N when we stopped the car and looked at the same moon. And also during a long drive a few years earlier, back into the city in a van that I co-drived, with only the radio helping us to keep awake.
The people around us may change the same way songs on the radio change, but regardless of how far we think we are from home, all of us are still looking at the same moon.
Posted by quickness at September 9, 2006 11:51 PM
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