The moon has governed agriculture, regulated religious calendars, organized festivals, and inspired the poetry of every civilization that has ever looked up — and now most of us notice it mainly when it is full and turns up in photographs. Nasreddin used the moonlight to read by when he forgot to light the lamp, which he considered a sufficient form of gratitude. Every tradition that has taken the moon seriously has become, in some way, more attuned to the rhythm of things that cannot be hurried.
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