Moon Monday

Monday, I'm told, is the "day of the moon." The Sunday moniker made it easy. But the lazy mouth of word evolution gives us one less "o" in Monday and folks like me don't see it.

It makes sense to name primary markings of our lives after other primary markings. Nothing is more defining than a day, and few things are more fixed in cosmology than a moon. So we have a day for the Sun, one for the Moon, and one for Saturn. We'll see if I ever get to the meaning of Tu, Wed, or Fri. I know Thursday is after Thor but know not why the vowel changed.

In our world Monday brings a new week, though the traditional beginning was Sunday. Now we skip Sunday and pay homage to the work week as the beginning of all that matters. Or something like that. Much could be said about the difference between traditional Sunday and the first day of the work week for most folks. But it can wait.

What does Monday mean? It gets nothing from "moon" as far as I can tell except the already mentioned shared significance. 

Monday means, for most, the beginning of another week of work, a day to arrive a little out of sorts, and a day when less gets done, in the main, than the other three before Friday.

What will I do on Monday? Write this bit of reflection and go about seeing my Grandson -- (I must write about him, and soon) -- and attending to many chores in this day that already approaches wane. Now who knew that would happen? Wane is a word joined at the hip with the moon. A waning moon is one beginning to fade from full to new, just as this day will go from full to midnight in 10 hours or so, all of which will increasingly (though figuratively) demonstrate wane.

I wrote all the way to find that, subconscious at work. And you read all the way for the same!

Happy Monday!