Autumn Daybook for Harvest Moon! [look. listen. make. do.]

Welcome, Autumn!  Let's celebrate with a few ordinary acts of paying attention to the ways earth's crammed with heaven in this season.  Here's some suggestions to get you started this week, beginning with the Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Sunday (9/27) night.
  

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Look

Under the Harvest Moon John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1872 source

11 Mesmerising Photos of the Harvest Supermoon above Britain

Rare Super Blood Moon: How To See It (great photo from National Geographic)

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Read

The moon now rises to her absolute rule

BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The moon now rises to her absolute rule,

And the husbandman and hunter

Acknowledge her for their mistress.

Asters and golden reign in the fields

And the life everlasting withers not.

The fields are reaped and shorn of their pride

But an inward verdure still crowns them;

The thistle scatters its down on the pool

And yellow leaves clothe the river—

And nought disturbs the serious life of men.

But behind the sheaves and under the sod

There lurks a ripe fruit which the reapers have not gathered,

The true harvest of the year—the boreal fruit

Which it bears forever,

With fondness annually watering and maturing it.

But man never severs the stalk

Which bears this palatable fruit.

Source: Poets of the English Language (Viking Press, 1950)

Possum's Harvest Moon (picture book)

September's Moon Guide at Old Farmer's Almanac

How to see this weekend's 'super blood moon'

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Listen

Listen to Neil Young perform Harvest Moon live at the Ryman Auditorium 

Listen to my always-evolving Autumn playlist on Spotify

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Make

Harvest Moon Cocktail at Tasting Table

Super Moonshine! Make four super-eclipse harvest cocktails

For the Kids

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Watch

What Is A Supermoon Lunar Eclipse? from NASA Tumblr 

How to Observe a Lunar Eclipse at California Academy of Sciences (excellent video!)

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Do

source

10 Fun Campfire Games

High 5: Bonfire Edition at Aesthetic Outburst

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