Lisa Ray Instagram – I have never been as attuned to the moon and it’s cycles as since the pandemic began. I won’t venture to say silver lining, but the moon’s presence, the way it dresses and delights through all its phases, has provided late night asylum when I need it. Posted @withregram • @aninditaghose The @parisreview has a new monthly column by @ninamaclaughlin called The Moon is Full to “illuminate humanity’s long-standing lunar fascination.” From the first column: “Between us / we had seventeen words / to describe the moon,” writes the poet Arundhathi Subramaniam. I wonder what they were. Let’s see how many we can come up with. Before that, one word. In more than two dozen languages, the words for month and moon are the same. In Croatian, mjesec; Czech, měsíc; Slovak, mesiac. In Filipino, buwan; in Malay, bulan. In Japanese, 月 (tsuki); Hmong, lub hlis; Maori, marama; Igbo, onwa; and Zulu, inyanga. In Romanian, Estonian, Uzbek, and Turkish: lună, kuu, oy, ay. Our timekeeper, our month maker, our definer of cycles, tetherballing around us in 27.32-day spans.” #ninamaclaughlin #parisreview #lunarchronicles #fullmoon #fullmoon🌕 #fullmoonenergy