S6:3 EP79: Goodnight (Blue) Moon

This month, August 2023, has two full moons - which means we get to experience the rare "Blue Moon." We're using this opportunity to wax philosophic on the Moon and all it inspires - from Margaret Wise Brown's "Goodnight Moon" to the poetry of Shelley, Stevenson, and Plath. We'll go through the evocative, poetic names for each month's full moon and their origins ("the cold moon," "the harvest moon," "the worm moon" etc.) and end with some incredibly beautiful music a la Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune.    ----- Subscribe to Born of Wonder on Substack https://bornofwonder.substack.com     Support Born of Wonder on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bornofwonder    www.bornofwonder.com  ------ August Super Blue Moon Guide https://www.space.com/blue-moon-supermoon-august-2023#:~:text=The%20Blue%20Moon%20will%20rise,slightly%20larger%20and%20brighter%20than  The Surprising Ingenuity Behind “Goodnight Moon” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/surprising-ingenuity-behind-goodnight-moon-180961923/  "To the Moon" - Percy Shelley https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/to-the-moon/  "The Moon" - Robert Louis Stevenson https://poets.org/poem/moon  "The Moon and the Yew Tree" - Sylvia Plath https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/sp-moon.htm  Farmers Almanac List of the Names for the Moon https://www.almanac.com/full-moon-names  "Clair de Lune" - Paul Verlaine  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_de_lune_(poem)  "Clair de Lune" performed by Pascal Roge  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c977QdbTImU