Sunday, June 7, 2009

"Do spacemen pass dead souls on their way to the moon?ei

The moon, waxing gibbous" was glorious last night, it made the prisms in the window twinkle and cast soft purple shadows across the floor. The June moon, has had many names , my favorite is the planting moon, it has also been called the honey moon, because of it's color, the color of buckwheat honey, my favorite honey.

Colonial American - Rose Moon
Chinese - Lotus Moon
Cherokee - Green Corn Moon
Choctaw - Windy Moon
Dakota Sioux - Moon When June Berries Are Ripe
Celtic - Moon of Horses
English Medieval - Dyan Moon
Neo Pagan - Planting Moon

It has been argued that the early Celts believed that the moon was the home of the dead.
And the line from a Simon and Garfunkel song keeps crossing my mind, "do spacemen pass dead souls on their way to the moon?"?

then and now, here and now

        Long ago, but not so far away, actually out on the front porch every Friday and Saturday night neighbors would gather. The air wou...