STEVE-OKEEFE

My moon looks like, well, how striking is it tonight? How bright? How big? If I lean this way, bend down a little, frame it with some trees, won't the moon look like that? To look a little grander with a bit of context, even if only for me — my moon. — Diana Harland

"Before there was the cool of the night, there was Molloch, the Dropa (son) of Enlil. Molloch is also called the Changing, the Moh and the Mon. His symbol is the Dark Circle. Molloch walked among the rocks and seas and wind and grass of his forebears. Molloch walked in the day of his brother Baal. Molloch's glow was not seen when Baal was awake, he chose the time of Baal's sleep to walk the Earth. Molloch did not like the grass reaching up to his glow, for it was so thick, it tied him and tripped him. Like his brother, Molloch leapt into the sky letting his glow shower the Earth. Molloch bores easily, so his face glows as he looks upon the Earth for only seven nights. Then he watches the setting of his brother for seven nights. For another seven nights, he looks at the stars. Finally, Moloch sees his brother rise for another seven nights, before returning his gaze to Earth." — A quote from the upcoming book, Teacher, by M.E. O'Keefe

There are hundreds of ways to look at the moon. Through a ring of wispy clouds at midnight, or faintly hiding in a blue morning sky, or just a sliver before falling into the darkness of a new moon. But my favorite is watching the long, rippled reflection of the full moon over a salty sea on a cool, silent night at the shore. — Kelly O'Keefe

1. There is only one moon for the planet Earth. 2. If there were two moons the tides of the oceans would behave in a very complex manner.  Each moon would have its own orbit, perhaps canceling each other's effects or amplifying them. 3. If there were three moons, that would be just crazy.

I feel bad about not looking at the moon more. The moon is a unique spectacle: a sight unlike any other in our world. A solitary orb hovering behind the trees. It is the only heavenly body that we can see in detail with the naked eye: The only one whose texture can be read, whose surface can be imagined as a landscape similar to our own. But have I ever stopped to think of what it would be like to be there? Of how it affects me? Of what it has meant for the generations of humanity that have pondered it? No, I am sad to admit that, for me, the moon is a thing I wonder at for a brief moment in this car as I hurry on to another seemingly pressing engagement here on Earth. — Donald S. O'K.

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