March 8

On the fourth day, God created the luminaries.

There's a documentary called _In the Shadow of the Moon_. My father introduced it to me and I highly recommend it.

In Arabic, the Moon is القمر—ask Wehr, Wiki, Google, and _Al-Kitaab fii Ta`allum al-`Arabiyyah_. In my homework I listened to a sentence talking about Neil Armstrong and that word came up. There's also a Middle Eastern dish called قمر الدين which, according to _Al-Kitaab_, involves dates.

Just a couple of months ago I was walking to the Conoco down the street, listening to Akbal Seven's album _Space, Pt. 1_. It was evening—dusk or early twilight, where the Sun is down but you can still see, and everything is sort of dim and the sky's a deep blue. The temperature was on the cool side of warm and there may have been a slight breeze (but don't quote me on that). I forget why exactly, but I looked to the east and I saw the orange disc of the Moon rising over the buildings to the east. Had to walk east to get back home, too. That evening was beautiful.