The Way Moonlight Touches

About the Book

The Way Moonlight Touches

“Art and writing have a marvelous way of allowing us to tap into the deeper, hidden realms of the unknown and to reconnect us with the unconditioned mind, which is abiding peacefully within us at all times.” Author Rashani Réa echoes her own words as she invites us to express emotions through creativity with a collection of collages, journal entries, and a poem in The Way Moonlight Touches.

This book consists of pages from a journal that the author kept in 1983 and a collage-poem which she also wrote the same year. Transforming anguish into creativity and color, Réa offers a glimpse of her grief during that time, eights months after her mother passed away. Today, twenty-six years later, she decides to publish parts of her journal and share particular collages, which were part of her own healing process as an offering of gratitude.

For a dear friend who reached through the veils of her grief and reminded her of the preciousness of life and love, she dedicates the poem "The Way Moonlight Touches". “Once again, Rashani shares her inner sanctum and invites us to find and express the deep and unique truth of who we are, bubbling up from the dark dreams of our broken-up hearts.”

- Jennifer Bonadio, yoga teacher

Be inspired to delve deeper than your emotions and find refuge in your creativity in The Way Moonlight Touches.

About the Author

Rashani Réa, born as Tori Harris, began writing poetry at the age of seven and was published four years later. She was born in Northern California where she spent the first fifteen years of her life and began teaching art when she moved to the east coast with her family a year later. Raised with the motto “freedom is discipline,” her childhood was an immersion in artistic explorations and an ongoing inquiry into the nature of beauty. Inspired by Martin L. King Jr. and Joan Baez, Rashani was awakened to the impact of art in social change and became an impassioned social activist at the age of twelve. Her other books include Beyond Brokenness and The Unfurling of an Artist.