#7 - Rhiannon Frater
The moon has always fascinated me. When I was a little girl, I’d lay on my bed staring out through the slates of the blinds covering my bedroom window at the enormous glowing orb in the sky. Its presence was a comfort. I’d often imagine flying up (like Peter Pan) to the moon and finding a place of refuge far from the abuse I suffered as a child. In my imagination, it was a place of lonely solace where I would be safe.
As I grew older, I read books with fanciful adventures on the moon. They were wildly not scientific, but I loved them anyway.
When I became an adult, the moon played a role in video games, science fiction films and television shows, and novels. It was no longer a place of lonely solace, but bustling with life and activity. I’d like to imagine that’s how it will be when future historians finally open the capsule.
I have always loved the full moon my favorite is the waxing or waning crescent moon that resembles the Cheshire Cat’s grin from ALICE IN WONDERLAND. I always find myself grinning back at it, a moment of camaraderie between the moon and me.
I was born in 1969, the year of the first moon landing, and as a kid I thought that was somehow significant. Considering my participation in this project, I don’t think that little girl version of me was wrong.
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