On the way home from the market tonight, driving home under a nearly full, huge pink moon. Possibly a pink moon?
Me: Ted is going have no idea what the moon is.
Kate: What?
Me: I’ll say Ted, look, there’s the moon… and he won’t know what it is. He’ll say its a very round cloud. He’ll need us to teach him what it is.
Kate: Um, there are lots of books to teach him what the moon is. He’ll know.
Me: Well, he’ll need us to tell him the names of the Apollo astronauts. And other stuff.
… And so on. I’m excited about teaching Ted about the moon, even if he’s already heard about it in books. Maybe by the time he’s old enough for his first jet pack, they’ll be fairly affordable trips to the moon.
Every baby’s first experience should be Good Night Moon… THEN you worry about astronauts, conspiracy theories, 2001: Space Odessy, Star Wars…
Glad you’re so excited!!
I see the moon and the moon sees me..
I know Ted already has at least a few copies of Goodnight Moon!
Today in SriLanka, Arthur C Clark died. He was 90. He wrote 2001.
Yesterday, your father and I were cleaning the attic and found a box of space mission patches that Wm Rock sent you. He was some big shot at NASA that auntie Lana Whelan met thru Delta’s crown room. We saved them for you to give to Ted.
I’ll bet all that Boy Scout Eagle training will help you teach him about the moon and it’s Indian names, that whole waxing and waning thing.
Henry Thorough (sp) said, every child creates the world anew. How exciting for you and Kate to be witness and guide.
Happy Easter, eat a peep.
xxoomom
Ted will miss out (just as you kids did) the excitement of the moon’s mysteries that were generated in the 60′s. Attending a school assembly every time they launched a rocket; CBS reporter Walter Cronkite interviewing NASA engineers about Gemini and Apollo spacecraft; sitting around the TV with the family in 1969 watching grainy back and white images of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon – these were the times.
This excitement all generated your own wonderment of the Star Trek and Star Wars stories. Through time and technology, a lot of the magic of the moon and space has been diminished. Maybe Ted, through you, can generate his own fondness of all things magical – under a full moon or not.
And what a wonderful full moon it was!
If you read Goodnight, Moon, you MUST do it in Christopher Walken voice.