Danceswithcats

Full moon last night. I opened the curtains of the west-facing window in my bedroom this morning and, as the sky brightened, I saw this.

It felt primal, and explained my mother’s odd mood yesterday. It might be disrespectful to compare your dementia-afflicted mother with a neolithic character in a sitcom, but there is evidence of lunar effect in a variety of conditions, accepted by a majority of mental health professionals.¹ Indeed, I remember that when my mother worked in residential care for people with severe learning difficulties, she told me that a number of medications were cycled to the phases of the moon.

She seems happy this morning, and the morning is beautiful. The moon has faded now, but is always there, as Robyn tells us.

Moonah.²

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28841578/ [↩]
2. With apologies to the creators of the incomparable Ghosts. The pertinent episode is here. You won’t regret sacrificing half an hour to it. [↩]