The Moon Lights the Way
This book
This book is my tribute to Ariah and to our friendship and sistership.
This book is in two parts. The first part is about the grief that comes immediately.
The acute grief
The paintings held me and moved mountains inside of me.
I am hoping and holding and believing that these paintings can also assist you in your journey of healing from loss.
The writing followed the paintings months afterwards. I looked at the paintings and the writings flowed out.
The second book, or part 2 is when grief is no longer in its raw state; becoming more of a flow.
Not so jagged
This book has been my healer. The loss of my twin has brought me closer to the mystery and the majesty of love, of love itself.
And may it be something like this for you too.
What I know is that the creative act will bring the pain and sorrow and all feelings that could get stuck in the body… the act of creating will move them out, move them into life, so they can breathe and transform and have a bigger life then inside the body
Excerpt from Moon Lights The Way:
I am resting in the soft light of the ocean
I am weaping and I am resting
And the depth of the ocean and tears reflects the sky and the deep cosmos
I am radiant in my body as she rests against a pillow of light
I have arrived in peace
Silence
This is beautiful
The white light shines to me
This is good
I listen to the silence
Warmed by sun and peace
I am held within and all around me
resting in the stillness and peace
Grieving has taken me here
I am grateful
Early Praise for
The Moon Lights The Way
I’m blown away by the depth and intensity of the paintings and your writing.
The paintings have entered a different realm, and they’ve taken you with them – you, creator and you, created. The writing has movement as does the flow of your grief – through desolation, mystery, oneness. The paintings, each one a gem, map a sort of jagged journey through your grief. I get more than ever how huge the severance from the twin you shared time in the womb with continues to be. How could you two have been closer than in utero together? Your loss is great. And yet the loss has brought you closer to the mystery and the majesty of your love, of love itself.
Wow!
Beautiful, touching, reaching, moving inside.
It brings the paintings to a new level of living/breathing.
IT reflects the intense and beautiful and wavey process of grieving and healing. This is so real, and present.
I love that you can and will share that now. I think that can be a gift to so many.