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Half A Moon is a newsletter featuring poems and personal essays on nature, books, travel, and the everyday extraordinary magic of being alive!
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Is Green the Colour of Hope? (opens the original)
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Dear reader, I spent eight days mostly reading in the humid embrace of a coastal city. In the aftermath of the rainy season, the Western Ghats were emerald and electric. I was immersed in the green glow of moss and copperpods and Indian almonds. I was knee-deep in foliage, listening to the rustling of leaves and paying attention to the way light made its way to me. In this much-needed escape, I made a little list of the ways to hope:Three minutes into check-in formalities, glittering scarlet thr
Breath-Work (opens the original)
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Thoughts from my time on the mat:When I close my eyes, there are two pied kingfishers and when they open their jet black beaks I can see the way the world leans towards madness. Madness and these golden-syrupy trills. Shadows and the sun that makes them soar.I watch all the shapes my shadow takes but I like her the most on the gravel, just before moonrise. I marvel at the amount of space she takes up. She is long and lithe and she dances out in front of me, leading the way. I am still learning h
Seasons (opens the original)
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The morning I learn my father’s CRP is 319, I also learn there are solar powered sea slugs, shaped like leaves, that steal chloroplast from the algae they eat.That same evening, I look at the gravel under my feet on the long walk to the parking lot—tyres and weary feet and July winds crafting a carpet of yellow. It is almost as though the sun has decided to frolic on the streets, instead of the sky. I follow the pressed copperpod flowers all the way to the familiar grey of a Skoda—a song about l
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