I haven’t been quite my self these almost five months of Grieving. There should be a Full Moon known as the “Grieving Moon” for they are all in my case…to when I don’t know. I almost forgot there was one today, June 24, 2021…and this Full Moon, tonight June’s Full Moon…last of 2021… a Super Moon “Pink Moon”…..er, Strawberry, that is.
Um, yeah…”Pink Moon”. I didn’t know my Full Moon’s names back then. I seemed to always confused April’s and June’s Full Moon names, habit.
You see……
I’m going to take myself back, to 1991. June 1991. On a Summer Full Moon night that appeared pinkish to me…maybe, I needed glasses…I did, but it had a pinkish hue and so…”Pink Moon”.
Ahhhhh, the 90’s……
I remember that Summer night with the Full Moon as if it was yesterday…that Summer night in my “back of the woods” N.California, the East Bay- 90’s…driving to San Francisco or Berkeley, to the Cafe’s or Bookstores one after the other or with any Luck the two would be one and the same…just my Bestie & I. I had this friend, who if it wasn’t for her I’d never leave my home nor experience any of those treks to The City-of San Francisco, as I did back in the day….none. Of. It.
Ah, I was so innocent back then…not, very…I was pining for and patiently waiting, hmmm…not the right words “patiently waiting” looking back…exciting, patiently, waiting…yeah, that was more like it! For what? For the Man, unbeknownst to me @ the time —I’d spend 30+ years with——so I guess those early 90’s days are “Pre-Michael” and I.
What’s a girl got to do while I wait until that Tall, Blonde, Blue-eyed with the deep manly voice, that sent my Boat-a-Sailed do while he gets that clue of my INTEREST in HIM….?!
Bide my time with my Bestie and explore the City, of course! My friend and I would go on little adventures….one of those circa 1990’s day exploring our own “backyard” ….San Francisco & it’s surrounding areas….Tiburon, Sausalito, the Presidio. Ft. Mason, the MoMa, Pier 29, or is it 30?…Alcatraz Island, Oh, no…never did experience that…so on, and so on….all the tourist attractions and not some, touristy…attraction. Ah, we were so young and invincible, so we thought. Not like these crazy days of today…or, was it? I’ll never tell…
Well, it was one of those nights in SanFrancisco where we did our thing, explore The City, on…you guessed it! On a Full Moon night. The Moon was a round! with a Pinkish hue to it. Hence, to me…Pink Moon. We had our Lattes and desserts at THE Ghirardelli Square while we just talked as we do about everything we early, very early, twenty-something year old females talk about….she of her Man, College classes, etc…and I listening as I do, under that pinkish Full Moon…listening to her, yet my mind was elsewhere….I, of course, had this HUGE crush going on, wondering “I wonder what he is doing”……”We are friends” I told my friend…but, my smile gave me away.
He was my friend. But…ok, the chemistry between us, was more than…friends. But, I wasn’t that kind of girl, you know?! I told my friend. I don’t know about him, but I am not in a hurry to find out…He’s going to have to “Court” me!
Yet…it was LUST at first sight for me! But, Hey, I like the “Chase”of it. Luckily, so did he.
And, so it was time to go home, my friend and I….my favorite part of the night….the long drive home while sitting in silence as she drove us home across the bridge into our “neck of the Woods” while the car radio played as I looked towards that Summer June Full Moon with that Pinkish hue, which I dubbed the “Pink Moon” as secretly or not so secretly thought about…Michael. And, how proper that the song playing on the car radio as we drove home with the windows opened, and the San Francisco lights behind us…and, that Moon, that Pink Moon that hence forth to me will always be the Pink Moon and every June since…but, Nick Drake’s…”Pink Moon”! Just like that commercial…many, many years later.
Here’s a secret….in the years after that night in 1991 of that Pinkish hue full Moon…I gave my Life-Partner a certain “code-name” that he and I shared for him….it wasn’t due to that Pink Moon, another story, for another time….So, Michael, Tonight’s “Pink Strawberry Moon” I’m thinking about you…just like I did 30+ years ago! Exactly. The . Same. Way.
I miss you, Nick!
Eternally your, Evie.
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