"Looking Lunarly Series"
| For 13 months
I looked lunarly and did my best to recreate the stories the moon
whispered in my ear. She lured me with the lightness of nursery
rhyme safety, then sent me reeling into the abyss of her shadow
as I struggled to make sense of this word; lunacy. While I was working on Reluctant Moon I saw part of a 20/20 episode on t.v. about Muslim life in Jordan where women are often killed by their own families for such "crimes" as not being properly veiled, smoking in public, choosing their own lover, or being raped. I recently learned of the gender apartheid toward women in Afghanistan, where women who used to be free as anyone in the U.S., are now basically under house arrest. Bombing continues in Belgrade where my friend, Nada, a teacher of non-violent communication lives. Several years ago she showed me pictures drawn by refugee children expressing their unspeakable pain. I am horrified and baffled. How can any of this be happening in 1999? I look into the bowl of playful women awaiting the moon and am struck by the realization that this time women's sacred laughter was not stifled, but it cannot be taken for granted. Human freedom. None are free till all are free. Oh what the moon's light reflects. |
 Grandma's Remedy |
 Gossamer Wings |
 Man in the Moon Mis-take |
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 Blame it on the Moon |
 D'anjou Moon |
 Waxed and Waned |
 Joliet's Moon Dream |
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Thirteen
Moons of |
 Reluctant Moon |
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| Relative Moon
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| Mystics
and magicians All marvel at the moon. Musicians forever strive To find its essence in a tune. It's
as if the moon, our brother, |
So
play for me a moon song Bring to me
a bowl |
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