All the lights flicked off last night at 10:43 pm.
The darkness that followed was eerie and gave me a peek of my home as I’ve never seen it before. Typically when the day is done and I get to bed I walk about confidently in the blackness taking cues from the remaining spots of light. There’s the nightlight in one of the bedrooms, the cool trail of blue light from our router, the green clock the stove gives off, or the red glowing buttons of the power-strips about. All of those were snuffed out last evening leaving the innards of our home engulfed in near crepuscule. Then a moment ago as I went to check on my unknowing kiddos I looked out the front windows and the familiar silhouette of my foothills to the north greeted my eyes. The envious moon could not let the absence of light have its way and it focused its attention to us below. It brought a bright smile to my face…right here in the dark.