Full moon, eighth month!

[heliopausa]

It's Mid-Autumn Festival again, and I have been out gazing at the moon - yes, there's the miraculous tree, and there's the Moon Boy lying down under it!But that's as far as I've got by way of recognising the day - no mooncakes, no persimmon, no green tea.  I did bestir myself - partly because there are two children coming this weekend, to cook and

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[puddleshark]

"Oh, yes!" Enthusiastic agreement all round. "Every single time!"

LOL. Ah, the power of nostalgia...

This is such a lovely post - thank you!

[tielan]

Those are good memories - good times, but, yes, gone.

There's a line in one of the Pirates of the Carribean movies (I think it's the 3rd one: At World's End) where Geoffrey Rush's character says, "The world used to be a bigger place." At which point Johnny Depp's character says, "The world's still the same, it's just that there's less in it."

I wonder if that's a 'growing up' thing, or a real commentary on the nature of the world we're in...