“What is it all about?” you ask. The philosophers have been grabbling with that question for millennia and you expect me to offer an answer. I know you look to me for existential guidance, but I’m afraid that this is one question that only you can answer for yourself.

Was it a breaching sperm whale? That would be a good omen indeed for the emblem.

As for blue moons, here’s a related Wikipedia entry: “A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles each calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years (on average about every 2.7154 years) there is an extra full moon. The extra moon is called a ‘blue moon.’”

first whale sighted one mile south of island yesterday evening.