A Nice View on Blue Monday

Day 21 - 8:25am, 21 January 2019

It's one am, and for anyone that knows me, that is about four hours past my functioning ability! So this is going to be brief, particularly as I know tomorrow is going to be a crazy busy. It starts with a child planning meeting for Little Master, there's a Bodybalance class to go to, online food shopping to take delivery of, kids to pick up from school and get to the dentist. Little Miss then has gymnastics and hubby (and I, if I have the energy to go and can be bothered to arrange a babysitter) have a parent council meeting in the evening. Little Master still has homework that needs completing and Little Miss is keen to push on with hers. Everything is being run to a schedule.

Hot on the heels of the blood red moon, it is Blue Monday. (Technically not as its past midnight, but let's run with it.) I am reflective, not necessarily because of the moon's position in the sky or the fact that it is the third Monday in January, but having written my notes in advance of tomorrow morning's meeting, I realise there is much to be positive about. When you stop and think about it, his progress has been noticeable. It's harder to see it without that longer timeline, because day-to-day it is hard sometimes hard to raise your head above the parapet. But it's all about perspective, and he's got places to go has our lad, they all do.

Apparently, the fireworks in the sky are not over. The moon may no longer be red, but today's event is the conjunction of Saturn and Pluto. I love the way the local paper reports it. The headline reads, "Miss the Super Blood Wolf Moon? You can see another stunning astronomical event tonight." The article notes that tonight will be a rare Venus-Jupiter conjunction, known as "kissing planets", where the planets temporarily appear closer together in the night sky. But almost as soon as they offer this golden nugget - sensual planets, who knew! - they take the shine off it. Of course, they are not really near one another, it's all a matter of perspective and some 365 million miles. And, according to NASA, a conjunction has no astronomical value, but it's nice to view. On Blue Monday, that seems good enough for me.