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Monday, April 14, 2014

Total Eclipse

When I was a kid, not long after my parents' divorce, I lived with my mom in a big apartment complex in North Carolina. I was having a rough time in school. Weird kids always stick out and I was no exception. I was introverted but loud, socially awkward but a perpetual new kid. In the last years of my parents' marriage I'd become an avid Star Trek: TNG fan and in the years following their divorce that didn't change. I was obsessed with space, astronauts, astronaut ice cream and Trek.

And that's why, in the early 90s, when my mom found out about an upcoming lunar eclipse she helped me stay up all night long to watch it. I couldn't hang and kept conking out. But my mom stayed up. Armed with two rolls of slow speed film and a Vietnam-era Fujica, my mom camped out on our balcony documenting the eclipse for her daughter.

Days later, she developed the film and I took it to my class for Show & Tell. I knew at the time that I was doing stuff other kids didn't do--for a previous Show & Tell, I took fossils I'd spent the summer collecting with my dad--but that was ok with me. It still is. I wish I still had those pictures. I'll bet my mom still does.

Anyway, I'll be outside tonight snapping crappy pictures of the eclipse with my iphone.


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3 comments:

  1. The Nested BlogApril 15, 2014 at 6:33 AM

    So much cloud cover here! I was going to wake up and go see it but with all the clouds, there was no way! This is a great story - I hope you got good pictures this time!

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  2. Karen M. PetersonApril 15, 2014 at 10:50 AM

    I got some pretty decent shots with my camera, I think. I haven't looked at them on the computer yet to see how clear they turned out.

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  3. Cynthia RandApril 15, 2014 at 6:40 PM

    Too much cloud coverage here in NC last night. And no camera. I conked out this time. But THRILLED to read this post, and know you were able to capture some pics of the same moon out there in CA! Yay!...
    And you are still showing and telling... you make my heart sing! <3
    Sometimes I wonder when I see a unique sunset filled with shades of purple and rose light or odd peachy colors I wonder what it will look like when it reaches you out there, because I know that out there the atmosphere is different and the weather is always different. And last night I wondered if you were going to be able to see the lunar eclipse and I even looked up the weather for LA....lol...

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