Lunar Eclipse

At 1:50am, I am in a deep sleep... The ringing of the telephone wakes me up and I think, who would be calling me at this hour? I pick up the phone and it is my mom on the other end of the line. Living so far from my family, I have a moment of panic thinking what happened? My mom immediately says, go look out your window, there is a lunar eclipse. I look out my bedroom window, but I don't see anything except the cross on top of Old Saint Joe's Church. Mom says, look out to the west. I stand there thinking, with my 2am brain, which way is west? After a moment it registers, I have been looking west. So, I proceed to go outside and look up and around west, north, and east. Still no luck... I go back into the apartment thinking, we should be able to see the same moon, where is it? I decide to walk to my front window, and there it is! South over the Bering Sea. And look... it is a lunar eclipse! For the educational side of things, a lunar eclipse happens when the earth gets directly between the sun and the moon, blocking the light that normally reflects off the moon. Me, who always forgets to have my camera out, actually thinks I should try and take a picture. I lay the telephone down and pick up the camera. I get a lovely view of the eclipse in the viewfinder. However, when I click for the picture to take, it doesn't turn out. I think, I hope the photographer for the Nome Nugget is up with a camera... With this spectacular sight occurring, my mind wanders back to August 1999, Romania. I was there, with Habitat for Humanity, and had the opportunity to experience a total solar eclipse. We were standing on the side of a mountain, surrounded by nothing. I remember seeing darkness, almost as a line, coming towards us very quickly. Then, being engulfed in total and complete darkness. This darkness lasted for a few minutes, then light began to come towards us. Thus far, the solar eclipse is one of the most beautiful, spectacular, awesome, and unbelievable experiences of my life. It is indescribable. Now the time has come for me to take one more peek out my window before heading back to bed for some sleep before morning. Good night and may each of you feel as blessed as I do right now, here in this moment, in this time...