It is fairly early on this Saturday morning, and I am quietly enjoying an espresso – the first of a few this morning I am sure. The full moon is tracking outside of my window right now, moving silently through a black sky. An hour glass of sorts, it is reminding me that I have things to do today. It can wait.

Well. Maybe it can’t. it’s getting close to the edge of the window sill now, and in a few more minutes it will be gone from my sight unless I move my chair. Maybe I am sitting in a moving Zen garden, like the Ryoan-ji Zen Garden in Kyoto, Japan. Based on mathematical principals, it is constructed in such a way that the 15 boulders are not all visible from any one perspective. Shape analysis aside, it is an interesting concept, and something that can and should be applied to life. If we stand still in life, we cannot see everything around us. At the same time, moving away from the familiar may obscure these familiar things once they move behind new ones. Astronomers face this problem every day, when they examine interstellar objects. We operate from a fixed perspective, based on this planet, and can’t always see things that exist in straight lines behind other stars and galaxies. We get brief glimpses of these things, occasionally, during eclipses, and through gravitational effects that curve space and time. Cool.

Maybe that’s what we all need in life. The ability to curve space and time, if only to see what we might be missing in our lives. This may result in a yearning for something new, or act as a reinforcing influence in knowing what we currently possess is special and worth keeping.

The track for this moonlit morning is Still Counting, by Volbeat. Volbeat is a Danish band, a cross between heavy metal and rockabilly, hugely popular in Denmark. Amazing vocalist. They are playing the Sonisphere festival in Finland in August this summer, along with Maiden, Slayer, Anthrax, and a host of other giants of metal. It’d be an awesome show.