Letters to the Moon....

Dear friends and family, Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy Solstice! Happy Hannukah! I hope this Holiday missive finds you well.   How are you? How has your year been? It’s been a challenging year for me, to say the least. But, I’ve come out the other side.  I have two accomplishments of note to share: First, I got a star award for excellence on the job at the library.  "Star Award" by Esperanza Habla Second, I have just published my eleventh book: “Me Too: The Ninth Poetic Collection: 2018.” It launched on Amazon on November 30, just in time for holiday gift giving!   https://a.co/d/jkCHiYl That’s all the news I have this year. Take care my friends. Pray for peace in the New Year. Take care and be well.   Peace to you and yours,                  -E "Me Too Wreath 2024" by Esperanza Habla

"Once", a Letter to the Moon Dear Luna, Hello there! Happy Holidays? How are you? How have you been? I hope you’ve been well. How is Sally? Please give her my love. I’m writing with big news to share-my new book is done!! Just in time for the holidays! It’s called, “Me Too”, and contains the writing I did from in 2018. I’m excited that it’s finally done! I’m so excited to share it with the world. https://a.co/d/7gG8i0H This is my eleventh book published to date. “Once” in Spanish. (Pronounced “ohn-say.”) I’m incredibly proud of this accomplishment. To publish one book in a lifetime is a feat. And I’ve published eleven! It makes me shake my head and wonder; how did I get here? How did this happen? How did I get to be so lucky? I truly can’t believe the book is out. I’m so excited to share it with the world. It’s been a labor of love for months. I even put a video out for it. Take a look: https://youtu.be/9ZGZ9H_Vdps?si=6I9el0iAB7Y6tXkL My friend, I’m so excited to share this b...

October 6, 2024 Dear Luna, Hello old friend! How have you been? I hope you are well. How is Sally? I've thought of her a great deal of late, after seeing her in a dream a few weeks back. It was wonderful to be with her for a time, if only in a dream.  How are things in your corner of the sky? I noticed your super moon phase a little while ago-you were gorgeous! Simply breathtaking! And I saw that last week you had an eclipse in Argentina and Chile, like we did here in April! I hope it was a spectacular show!  My life has been crazy of late. I haven't had time to write much less do anything else. Actually, I've been working on my next book, entitled "Me Too." I've been working on it for months, and made a trailer for it. Check it out: https://youtu.be/0JQUZIeexPQ?si=yhMzyA89HkxaL-uW Like every book, it's a work in progress. Once I have a draft of the book done on the computer, I order an advanced copy of the book, to check it for errors.   I'm checking ...

  Massive Sunlight 5-25-24 Cloudy skies outside my door. Never have seen this before…. The clouds outside are white and grey -though not a grey day anyway Skies peeking through the clouds are blue. The clouds though have a different hue. The clouds it seems to me are stuck- celestial laws have run amok. The clouds aren’t moving through the air- stationery, hanging there! Not a single breeze goes by. No exception. Wonder why? What an odd, confusing day in this the latter part of May. Sunlight beaming hurts my eyes  as it emerges from disguise. Clouds begin to dissipate  as if resigned to follow fate. What a pretty day it’s been. Massive sunlight pouring in.                                     “The Clouds Are Stuck” by Esperanza Habla

 The following is a letter to the moon, an unfinished stream of consciousness.  March 25, 2024 Dear Luna, Hello dear friend. How are you? I hope you’ve been well. How is Sally? Please give her my love. Things are crazy here Luna. War has broken out in another country on the Earth. Countless innocent people, men, women, and children, have been slaughtered. Famine and other insidious horrors of war continue to spread.  One cannot comprehend the devastation, the desperation for peace. Hundreds have been taken hostage. Their loved ones live in agony as they await their safe return, or any information on their whereabouts or wellbeing.  The terror of those stuck in the situation is a constant presence. Numerous human rights have been violated. One American soldier serving in the area set him self on fire, protesting the acts being perpetrated. I cannot fathom the horror and devastation occurring on a daily basis.  Acts of terror are happening on a daily basis. In rec...

"Corner of the Sky"  Or  "Eclipse 2024" The date will go down in history, in my corner of the world-April 8, 2024. The date of the latest visible solar eclipse. I’ve always been interested in the universe. I come by it naturally. When I was in elementary school, we went to the local high school to watch a presentation in their planetarium. We learned about the universe, the stars, constellations, and more. Simply put, I was star struck. (Pun unintended.) A few years later I was a student at the high school, and was employed at the planetarium. It was a pleasure to perform the show I had seen years before, to introduce children to the constellations. It was a magical thing to witness, the complete awe and wonder in a child's face as stories of myths and legends came to life in the nighttime sky. * Because of the orbits of the Earth, Moon, and Sun, eclipses happen every eighteen months. However, most often than not, the eclipses occur over water, where no one can...

Another year has come and gone, much to my delight. I feel different this year. I feel recharged and renewed, as if the slate has been wiped clean. We all get a fresh new start. In reading about this new year, I’ve found some fascinating things. Nine years ago, I wrote about Chinese New Year, also referred to as Lunar New Year. Every year has an animal assigned to it, according to the Chinese zodiac. https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2015/02/chinese-new-year.html Since writing about Lunar New Year, I’ve paid special attention to the animals of the years, noting the different animals and their meaning. I’ve also researched how the animal of the year of my birth related to the animal of the new year, to learn what a coming year might have in store. Last year was the year of the Rabbit. The animal for this Lunar New Year is the Dragon. In doing research on the year of the dragon, I learned that it should prove to be a successful year. The website Chinese Zodiac wrote:   “The Dragon...