don't forget this when you sign your 10/40, see...

hey yo...heya...thank ya...bout to change your view see...that said...bout to start this out with something funny see...cause then the rest is gonna be way too damn real...but you're readin' and sayin...yo...whoa...really is this it, like this, yeah...it's like that........so check this shit...out...yo G...

a real sign from NYC an KFC:

hehe...i got ur bitch hangin'...
Tupac...Money B - and Shock G..."when you learn, baby doll, ya can't tie me down...hey yo Shock, let them hoes know...just 'cause i'm a freak don't mean we can hit the sheets...see, weekends was made for Michelob, but it's a Monday...so just lemme hit it...so long as you know...round an round...puhlease...
ohhh-you don't know me, you just met me, you won't let me? well if i couldn't have it, then why ya sweat me...break out or be clown, baby doll are you down..."
-disc two, track four-greatest hits.
but-if you really wanna listen to what's up...check out "changes," same disc, same day-see...ya gotta operate the easy way...i made a "G" today, but ya made it inna sleazy way...i gotta get paid...well hey, that's the way it is...it's time for us as a people to make some changes!
(damn he's talkin' bout a war in the middle east? but that was 19-90muthafckin8) what the? still? ten years later? still a war in the middle east? peace. make me wanna start back bangin' man...stone face an it's on...it's hard to imagine...revolution? i gotta formulate a caper cause light-skin ng 'a straight sufferin' from a lack of paper...

you see, the only thing today that gets me outa my depression and anxiety is thinkin' about takin' control of this bitch...done with a holy war you don't believe in? betta step up...betta say so...next one in line for death row...traveling thru the streets ina hearse...could be you-man woman and child...when the real war starts-well...if you read this then you know...someone said so...military state sound good to you? wanna see bombed buildings, rubble and everything you know destroyed like a tonka toy in a head on with a F-15? wanna see your kids growin' up livin' life twisted-imagine your lil girl layin' face down, bleeded out a rip, with her arm stickin outa her hip...imagine your lil boy with pieces in the living room and the bathroom...see, it's blood and destruction you won't look at on tv, not on NBC...'cause some dude in the house said the people don't need to know...where it is they money really go...wanna see...another man dead in a war zone-wanna see the tears when another mom sees her boy-gone.
get up and get busy-time to get to the scene...another military state? another 3 billion spreading hate....we are the minority and one day we'll see and we'll be...desperate to go back, to rewind this track...listen to the leaders of your time...what is the message-do you wanna pay for they crime?
you gonna sit and realize someday, this motha was for real...thug life, boy...when you can't get a drink and you got nothin to heat your home and you realize it's the mistakes of the past you live with in the future-then you'll see the lies...then you'll come through...past the gates and say...mr. angel man...didn't I do it right...didn't i stop the fight...or did i sit by idle and watchin'...the bombs of death droppin'...flyin' through the mid east skies...paid for...by me, on my ten-forty...that's right people, it's tax time-guess where you money is goin'?
to pay for death...another cause you funded...another man in a turban didn't do nothing but wanna pray his way...another woman and child left in rubble and blood...paid for by you and your contribution...way to go...thank you...thank you yourself...when you sign your 10/40...sign your certificate...to hell...paid for by me...'cause i done see...now ain't no way not to know...not to go...back ain't an option...get it together now...for your eternity is at stake. on this day-the day after we praise the reverend Martin K, man i just gotta say...someday-we'll see the day...when the people are judged not for the color of their skin, or for the way they pray to the same damn God you say you pray to too...but for they character...and judged you'll be...not by the poetic justice, but by the action did, and the action you didn't did...you see, when you give the leaders you elect the money, it's your responibility, that's the key, so close your eyes...look away...maybe you won't even see it comin'....maybe...but you really think it's so...i think you see it an you know it and you gonna act surprised...but in a way, you gonna think....damn...i had a shot, a chance...coulda listened to some crazy man...livin' in the snow...and goin' slow...down the tubes of the path to hell...one single US dollar at a time...and a fed cut rate ain't gonna help you see how you mistook reality for religion...and how you did it again...and again...ten years gone...money spent to set it up...and leave it hangin' like...the ten...comandments you know...and the philosophy of leaders great and new...to which you owe the reality of this misery...the misery you are gonna know...unless you get with it and get it goin' straight up-right on through...like death and life-only the real two...things you better think about yo...maybe what we need see...just-a-crazy man...hey...i gotta go...peace.
Obama '08. end of message-back to your regularly scheduled programmin'. (oh, and go email a few dollars to me, i need it)...visit: to keep going... or just click here to email me a few dollars...lastly-if you would like to make a difference...(this post was originally a http://myspace.com/jesatiu bulletin) click reply, copy ALL of the code and then paste it into a new bulletin. that way, anyone on your friends list that is not on my friends list will also have a chance to read and forward it and then...soon...it'll go worldwide and it'll make me wrong. Trust me-I wouldn't mind being wrong...but...what if I'm NOT? just do it...your action...it's what'll make the difference between me being right, and me being wrong...PROVE ME WRONG. peace.~!jesatiu

tap into the singing of complete heart whispers...

tag: social media adventures unlimited by Controlled content listing limits.

"tap into the social media revolution..." (courtesy socialmedia.com)

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. ~Plato (courtesy Christine Taylor)

This notation is based on the following site reference:

This comes to me from the http://www.socialmedia.com/ homepage, accessed through the list of the latest companies working under the funding and direction of softvc, http://www.softtechvc.com/index.html
http://twitter.com/JeffClavier

Perspective on web2.0 excitement...where does it belong?

I've been asking around and trying to keep perspective on the excitement around web2.0, yet replies are not coming in terribly quickly as of yet. Perhaps expanding my following and followers is of utmost importance. UPDATE: I did expand my following to include nearly 2k twitterers. I have had several follow back, to them: a collective "thanks, you."
There was a drawback to expanding my following in this manner, which was, basically, done with reckless abandon. The downside, as it turns out, is that I needed to make a separate twitter ID to use to update my family and close friends...the amount of uupdates alone on the @jesatiu account, as well as what some people say, just makes it necessary to have a "personal" as well as a "business" twitter account (rather, a research account-better term than business).

I realize to have the jesseloop.blogspot.com site down for this interim period isn't the most exciting part of my day, but i do think that in terms of a long-term project, where the mix of photojournalism and social connectivity arrive, there will be sunnier days ahead. UPDATE: blog is back up and publicly viewable-still no way to accept donations but I promise to get to that very soon...UPDATE update: PAYPAL functional! what this means is that you can now send me a couple dollars, even just one or two bucks each, or even thousands, if you are the kind of person able and willing to do so, and become a sponsor of my writing (again, it's not so much my writing I'm trying to push, but what I'd do with your donations).
I really look forward to comments and if possible, enough revenue to allow me to actually make this a decent blog-as for now there will be no charge for any of the content-it will all be publically viewable, it's just that now you can donate to this cause-because...
If you do donate-you can do so annonymously, of course, but, I would prefer if you did so publically and added comments regarding why you chose to fund terraverse-writ for the world. I'm very interested in your share of this adventure. If you donate non-annonymously I will provide you with a certificate that will act as a share in the revenue stream-if we can get it to the point where I have time and resources to go public. I know how to do it-mechanically, the SEC, Secretary of State, etc...I know the rules-and guidelines, I just need the financial ability to spend the time to do it...

My patience with bringing content, Controlled content, to individuals of the earth is warranted by the sheer need for connectivity and purpose.

When I begin to think it's not going to work, I must remember the motto:

I feel the from "between the ears and behind the eyes" (Thank you to Christine Taylor, fellow/friend/twitter-er at: http://twitter.com/mousewords.)

I would also like to thank Christine Taylor for putting up the headline quote from Plato. It is this sort of transitional knowledge that is the fodder jesseloop.blogspot.com's Controlled content lives on; life depends on it. The impression of impressionistic peoples, who make an impression. You know, of all the Controlled content writers, I think my writing is the worst. It is at best, the most unusual and, if you take the time to consider it, either fabulously inferior or superbly lame. I suppose it could be just the opposite, as well, but then, that woud be all backwards. Unless you turned it around...hehe...now, which way was up, again?

http://mousewords.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/night-of-stars/

In addition to having posted a wonderful snippet of inspirational, albeit trinitar-ilianly centric, sentiment on the fabulousness of the empire we humans have described as the universe. Her exquisite writing and choice words help to begin to capture the sensationalism of the night sky. http://mousewords.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/night-of-stars/ is a truly wonderful piece. Christine Taylor should be writing for terraverse@gmail.com. This is exactly the sort of Controlled content we want to offer.

The reason for Controlled content is not to keep it solitary and off the path of the common user, but instead to open the doors of mouth-to-mouth, or in today's age, web2.0-to-web2.0 user-to-user communication. I think of having a way for a donor to share their access with anyone that isn't able to donate but wants to read anyway. It will be a sponsorship solution...details still in my head but...it'll come.

Despite the differences we all have in our personal way of looking at things, in our understanding of our place in time and space, and in the way that we view the internal and the external, we must see the benefit to Controlled content.

It will allow us to not only find the worth and the value in what has many, many drawbacks, but it will allow us to share the worth and value with those who need it the most.

"We can shape this world, if you would only show us how...your life is now..." -Mellencamp.

I view and you view. The way we view is editorialized by the way we think. Great philosophy, education and human development are intrinsic to the editorialization of each human. The disparity among each human is like swimming across the pond for coffee. You just wouldn't do it, if you could do it another way, would you?

http://twitter.com/StevenHodson

Demonstrative of how one person can involve the right person? We'll challenge the associations of association in further posts. I do expect resistance, however, I will not let it push against me, I am undaunted in my approach to doing things my way. However, whenever I deem it necessary, I'd really like to find few good guymens (add post on version of Gaimen's last name, attrib to night with Chaundra (sp?) and Antoiné).

http://www.techipedia.com/2007/internet-marketing-best-blog-posts/

http://twitter.com/melissamaples Reading up about the philosophy behind Qi Gong

http://www.techipedia.com/2007/ebay-vs-google/

I can see confusion regarding the outcome of this occurance. Ok, that's not a lot unlike the rest of life, sure, however, in this case, a lot of life for the upper crust (including myself) could possibly be affected by the confusion.
It is the effect on ourselves we should concern ourselves with.

Both Vince and Tamar say so much in their posts. It would be silly to argue with them. That said, I'm a fan of silliness, but still just can't muster an argument. Alas, perhaps Bank of America will soon control both-what could go wrong? I actually figured out a way to get Bofa's VP to contact me, too...all I had to do was quit paying my e-bill. Reminds me, I need to write her back.

A year since this occurance will pass soon, and where do we stand today? I think I'll go reseach it, on google, of course.
After that, I think I'll write a book on my research and sell it, on ebay, of course. You can buy it, too...through... :) (Insert google chechout or ebay/paypal here, of course.) Controlled content.

~!jesatiu
www.twitter.com/jesatiu

Tonight's highlights...as reviewed by Controlled content.

http://twitter.com/TheFemGeek. @jjmac What a great idea. Too bad I keep postponing doing it about 8 hours ago from ThinCloud in reply to jjmac

I never thought I'd say this but I'm proud to be a Twit. I'm a This Week in Tech Twit & I'm a Twitter Twit. Someday we shall rule the world. about 18 hours ago from web

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http://twitter.com/mitten Leaving the house for points unknown, just for the sake of leaving the house. about 17 hours ago from twhirl

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http://twitter.com/NoxDineen Is it wrong that I want to spend the long weekend hiding from human contact? How amusing is a misanthropic anthropologist? 01:27 PM May 19, 2007 from web

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http://twitter.com/aweckerle Some things are worth fighting for with all you've got. Staying the course for those worth it, walking away from those that aren't anymore. 04:28 PM January 06, 2008 from txt

Bio Personal motto is "attack life, wait for nothing."

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http://twitter.com/mincedmedia Realizing that I'm the tree from which the apple does not fall far from. (sigh) 01:06 PM January 08, 2008 from web

Found new sports fan social networking site with (gasp) user-gen'd content. http://www.rootzoo.com/ Kinda like your neighborhood sports bar. 02:31 PM January 10, 2008 from web

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http://twitter.com/warzabidul @starrgazr it's what happens when you try to look at a computer screen through the inside of your eyelids ;-) 2 minutes ago from im in reply to StarrGazr

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http://twitter.com/HenryMichel New blog post: Seesmic killed the radio stars. http://www.henrymichel.com/?p=35 12:53 AM January 10, 2008 from Twitter Tools

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Well, this concludes today's posts...we'll find out what tomorrow has in store for us as we take the present to the future with a vengeance for humanitarian justice.

~!jesatiu

PS-actually asking for donations to view a separate blog of "Controlled content" is probably not a reality in the very near future, because, as I've said, there are so many better writers out there than I, but, I want to stress that the idea does not center so much around my ability to write, but in my ability to do something good with the proceeds from donations. That, my friends, is where I want to take this adventure...humanitarian justice, just for us, all. And, if that is too lofty, then at least some reasonble sort of educational value, social value...would suffice.

Great things in smaller humans-And small humans in great things.

Variety of current topics discussed in thread of daily activity, includes notable quotes and links for the day...

Arrived home today to find that my daughter had done what she should have done and bussed the dishes and counter in our spacious kitchen/living area. She has done her homework and gone off to bed after getting a little laundry ready. Once I’ve actually installed the washer dryer in the hall where it goes this is going to be fairly easy…depending on my perspective, you know…

So, I turned my thoughts to her and then thought of her sister, with whom I’ve eaten lunch this afternoon.

She’s so bright-when she put on my hat I had to photograph it, good thing this four-year-old Nokia “candybar” style 3220 I’ve got still pulls out a pic now and then…night mode doesn’t work, but a few of the really awful things it was doing after being left in the rain that one time, oh wait, that was after it had also fallen from the car-breaking the screen (I was able to ebay replace that myself, dry the water damage with heat lamps and get that sucker back up and running, though). Getting it back up and usable turned out to work perfectly as well. The replacement one (identical, of course, how do you think I got the “new” screen?) was damaged shortly after going into service.

Well yeah, I love putting technology together, I really do. But when it works against me though…well those are the off days.

I have them. I mean I have days when electrons and particles just won’t deal with me. I suppose it’s those days that I…”diverge from normal” as I’ve stated…but I mean, when you can’t get this that or anything to work! You know…when it all fails? Ok like…when “stuff” isn’t stuff it’s…well…just there ‘cause it don’t work no more?...

Ok I have to explain what a phone is when it has no way of working and it becomes no longer a phone anymore-but rather a nonphone, but I really want to talk about my younger kid again…so I’ll explain later.

She likes things her way.

Some might call her…oh, I don’t know…pushy, or something (evil, that, was said once-she was compared to Evil Betty as we refer to my grandmother now…man it hurt when evil Betty finally died except she was one of those nursing home bound ones by then and what really hurt was when she stopped being evil Betty, you know? Years before she actually passed. We had some damn good times.).

So pushy kid is demanding water and salsa and all, except she really wasn’t being pushy; just assertive.

I loved it. And we so enjoyed lunch. Her digging for the one penny I had in my coat pocket and helping open my new books. Man did she tear into that quesadilla to get to the bread…and she a skinny girl, too. I think really she just didn’t care fore the cilantro, it was sooo good, I can eat cilantro plain by the handful-stuff is good.

Ohhh yeah…187.00 for something that’s already online and you get both? C’mon people…Chez Nous can go to pieces for all I care. I’m sorry guys, I know you gotta make a living too and all but I don’t see the breakdown-oh wait-shareholders...oh…yeah? really? Oh they do? Demanding? Oh ok…well…yeah I’ll quit bitching. I love the way you totally discombobulated the entire learning French experience here, but C’est la vie-is just my review.

SOOO I have hot tea, am going to eat some potatoes and hook you up with a few cool quotes and links of the day and call it a day…

I swear I won’t talk of textbooks for long, BUT I do know some of the answers one of you seeks. Or, at least I can see in the 17th direction that you are tying into the largest, most hungriest, most dominant group to ever read a magazine or buy a textbook. At least on record that we can actually prove.

I access my 180.00 content on a site linked through my collaborative learning site.

It’s url is: https://oncourse.iu.edu/portal. You won't be able to access without proper credentials.

You know, before we get to the links for the textbook topics that are of interest to those of you who have interest in magazine readership, I think I’ll talk about…skeery, huh? You don’t know what’ll come out next…

Ok ok…

I think I’ve met a million people. I’ve heard a record called 60,000,000 Buffalo once, that I’m certain and positive about, but I really think I’ve met or came into contact with over a million of you others. Just a personal thought I had when someone asked me if I’d heard of various ways of meeting people…I wasn’t in their head so I’m not sure what they thought that made them to think that they’d ask me that, the person who has traveled across this country and through this country every single way that people move themselves about (planes-roughly 40 trips-not much to bus travs but just as a kid, back then, that was something) (trains-yeah four/five times, if you count going up the west coast…and subways and such) (and-autos and hitchhiking and driving and walking and generally going throught the world, as Yung would say…) anyway, All I’m saying is that I know what I’m talking about whenever I do.

Buzzy says, “you might just say what you mean if you ever learn to mean what you say,” or something like that…I’ll just post the song for you to listen too (parts of)…

Ok done. On to textbooks and the online presence and transition…I know many of you know what the TRANSITION word is all about…as do I…as do I…

Oh, and I also realized I missed a question posed on a blog the other day (see response to when did you start blogging). I said I was a newbie and I am not up there with some of the greats that really are out there today, but I have been working on this for a while. I do a lot less news (*well survival, physical and emotional/spiritual are kinda like news…but yeah). Which is to say I don’t do any hard news, unless it’s reposted. I do do human though, and I do write/blog and have been doing it for several years now…I’ve kept up enough to play a little catch-up here and be right up to now where everyone else is…that’s one of the most interesting things about technology’s aspects and attributes-we are living in it now in the present and those at the top can be caught by any of the rest of us that are in the chase too. Not that we will, but we could, theoretically, because we “newbies” and “amateurs” as I like to call us, live in the same era as do the real pros.

In contrast, for example, a while back if someone was involved in something cutting edge, some publication or political directive they were authoring or advancement to physics or philosophy or math or astronomy, or music (we can add in names, Mozart, Franklin, Nietzsche, etc…) they were kinda special, kinda one of a kind, like…but now…at least in the sphere of technology, we’re all “growing up on it,” so to speak, at the same time, er, in the same times. You get it.

So finally here’s that stuff on the textbooks. Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki on twitter) should find these of interest, at least, worth a quick click, cause that’s all there is…come back and finish the article though…please.

TEXTBOOK LINKS:
http://books.quia.com/books
This follows in the vein of an article on truemors.com in which guykawasaki askes for opinion regarding a "new" technological approach to textbook learning...at least that was my take on the process...I could have it all wrong...

Elsewhere, I saw a good article via http://truemors.com/ on the new legalization efforts coming out of Oakland-and with an educational ring to them. I had wondered the other day if the DARE program would, seeing how we have so much globalization and buyouts and consolidations and all (according to the experts…oh they are? Media? Really? Well, I mean…I guess…but then…some of us are trained…) ok sorry…back at the ranch…

Where were we….ew, yeah…talking about drugs and making them legal. I don’t want to go off on that, it might violate some terms I’m obligated too.

Anyway…was talking about the book at this link: Amazon.com Primal Leadership Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence Books DanielGoleman,Richard E. Boyatzis,Annie McKee, which is about leading and leadership in the current day and age...I would like to read the book if someone could donante the 11.00 that would be great. I really appreciate if you are able to do things like that now and then.

Felt an interest in the article from truemors.com:
BERKELY LINK
Permanent Link to School of Pot

TWITTER QUOTES:
MikeToner @jesatiu Are you referring to the FEC chairman? The book reference is really not necessarily a suggested read; I have not actually read it 44 minutes ago from web in reply to jesatiu

http://twitter.com/Pistachio
@cartwright very sweet to say "brave" but i love heights & freefall, so for me it was cheating. brave = facing fears. i'm "eh" at that. about 5 hours ago from web in reply to Cartwright
Raw footage of a flying nut: http://is.gd/Iw And of other folks who actually know what they are doing: http://is.gd/Iv about 6 hours ago from web
Poigspam: Dearest One, I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously about 6 hours ago from web
@megfowler VERY nicely put. about 7 hours ago from web in reply to megfowler

Further, I would like to offer these links just for fun-although if you have been following Jim Long's article on freedom of speech and have thought about how we have tons of it, and thereby have a huge need to protect it, as well as having thought about how it is related to freedom of privacy, then these links may be your thing...
Permanent Link to Ex-Congressman Charged in Terror Conspiracy
Lawmaker CIA tape destruction unauthorized - Security- msnbc.com
Permanent Link to Rosie O’Donnell Compares Britney Spears to Princess Di

This last one sort of doesn't belong with the two previous, unless we discuss how a breakdown in freedoms could result in a breakdown in pur ability to create the power we need to make the technology we depend on work. This isn't, at least not yet, a complete threat, as we still retain some lore and ability to survive without technology, but in a couple decades or so, it could become an issue.
Permanent Link to 20 Signs That Technology Rules Your Life
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19876326/

TWITTER LINKS (also added to left side, probably):
Twitter - MikeToner
Twitter - Pistachio
Twitter - twitterofalex
note, this one is my profile:
Twitter - people search

I’m thinking about starting a new series, too, and podcasting it, as well, if I can garner any interest and capital. Capital is a major obstacle for me at this time. But that will come…

So the series uses my writing and your headlines. I’ll share more detail eventually.

It’ll be grand.

Lastly, really this time, here are a couple links regarding business. Pretty much just follow these two at your own risk...you never know where things will lead you.

Need funding for business venture. on Yedda - People. Sharing. Knowledge. Businesspundit
What Bullet Holes in Airplanes Can Teach You About ...
Permanent Link to How to Steal Advertisers from Magazines for Your Blog

There's not much i won't say, but not much that i can say...

Entry for November 17, 2005

tag my mom painted the moon.

My mother painted the moon onto the night sky when I was a young child. She showed me the tides as they moved in and out on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and I realized the world is a small part of a universe that is larger than I have enough imagination to understand.

This connection to the smallness of human life was later reinforced through an introductory astronomy class in college, the difference being more of the astronomy class knowledge has been forgotten, while my personal connection to the moon remains. At times it even grows.

When I say my mother painted the moon, I mean it literally. She had an artistic talent-one not passed on to me-and used it with oil on canvas to create treasures. At least I still have those. One of my favorite paintings is of the moon shining down on a part of the California coastline known as the Rincon.
The moon is not a simple thing floating above the earth, or something my mom left behind on her canvas, or a celestial body influencing oceanic movements and behavior in animals…no, it is something I will always have to connect me with my mom. That is what is important to me.

Often, as an airport terminal kid, which is similar to a latchkey kid, except my alone time was spent between the giant silver wings of commercial jets, I traveled back and forth across the country. One parent lived in Indiana, the other in California.

When I lived in one place, I was happy to be there, but was often sad, missing the other. When I left one place, I was sad to be leaving, but happy to be going back. Between times in California, when I’d miss my mother, I’d look into the sky, see the moon, and feel comforted. As a child, she said to me, “When you look up at it, you will know it is the same moon I am looking at.”

We all live under the same sky, influenced by the same moon. The same stars shine on all of us, the same sun lights our days. Mother realized this, and having this knowledge has helped me connect to life on earth in ways I don’t think I would have otherwise done.

I have come to believe the moon facilitates a spiritual connection between humans. Friends have told me how they feel comforted by the moon. It is said the power of a full moon influences behavior among primates, people included. In my experience, during times of the full moon, people have an increased rate of insomnia, they tend to act less cautiously, and do things they might not otherwise do. I cannot explain the phenomenon, but I’ve heard a lot of people make the same claims. The moon is a symbol of comfort, yet it is also seen as influencing rash behavior.

There is a lot of talk about what science has labeled the “full moon effect.” Most of the research itself is inconclusive, varying widely by scope, author and study. Some studies have shown that murder rates increase and decrease with the phases of the moon, and that animal bites are more common during the full moon. Other studies show no correlations. Inconsistency may be the only constant in these studies. Regardless, myth or fact, notions of changes in mammals based on moon phase exist.

Based simply on children’s literature, there’s actually a lot of comfort in the moon. Margaret Wise Brown’s story, Goodnight Moon, a bedtime favorite, is read by parents around the country, still, as when I was a child. In it there’s this big moon; silver, shining--powerfully comforting the young as the old lady sits, whispering hush.

Many children’s books exist that focus on the comfort of the moon. Frank Asch wrote Moonbear, where a young bear decides to do something about a moon he believes is shrinking each night. And if the moon could talk, by Kate Banks, includes the moon looking down on a child getting ready for bed.
I have always liked Eric Carle, and his moon book, Papa, please get the moon for me. His book helps settle youngsters on their way to bed. It features a parent-child-moon relationship-of-comfort.

In the end, the moon isn’t just special to me, it seems to be special to a lot of people for a variety of reasons. Of course, for me, it really is special for one specific reason.

I thank my mom for giving me a way to connect with her, because even though she died many years before she should have, and is no longer here with me, we still have the moon. I will never forget her, and it helps to think of her while I'm looking at the moon.

I know I'm right about all of this, don’t I? Or, maybe not, perhaps it’s all just lunacy. The powers of the moon really are as unpredictable as the associations people have with it. It is widely used in bedtime stories to comfort children, able to connect individuals across geographic divides, and yet, Luna, the Latin term for moon, is the root word of lunatic, lunacy, loony and other words meant to describe mental illness or disorder. Perhaps some beliefs are better left unchallenged by science. I am comforted by the moon, and I hope you are, too.