Drawing on her own experiences, as wll as those of her friends, Moon explores the different kinds of prayer and clearly demonstrates how a life of prayer can change the lives of those who pray and of those around them.

How to Pray Without Being Religious: Finding Your Spiritual Path

Religion & Spirituality

Moon, Janell

Worship & Devotion

Element Books Ltd.

Prayer is for everyone. Janell Moon explores the different kinds of prayer and clearly demonstrates how a life of prayer can change the lives of those who pray and of those around them and shows that prayer is for one and all - religious or not.  In the last few years, there has been a renewed of interest in prayer as a spiritual discipline - -by those who do not define themselves as religious. There seems to be a growing recognition by the "non-religious" spiritual seeker of the inherent value and practical benefits of developing a strong and rich prayer life. HOW TO PRAY WITHOUT BEING REIGLIOUS is for those people. It makes prayer palatable for those who feel uncomfortable with formal religious belief; but want to connect with the life of the spirit and sense that prayer is a way of developing a rich spiritual life.  Includes: Explains why developing a life of prayer is important; Demonstrates the personal and collective benefits to prayer; Provides specific example of different kinds of prayer.  The benefits of prayer include:  Emotional healing Getting Guidance Articulating ones needs and desires An aid to the imaginative and creative life Healing society

How To Pray Without Being Religious: Finding Your Own Spiritual Path

Thorsons Pub.

Poetry. Janell Moon's is an absolutely original voice. With wicked humor and a compassionate eye, Janell deftly tackles the conundrums of family, lesbian love, aging. She brings to her writing the raw, risky honesty that only a strong poet can. Roaming from her girlhood in a small Ohio town, to dreams after a friend's suicide, to the tricky balance on a San Francisco hillside, she confronts the fractures of identity and how we make our place in the world --Dorthy Wall. When morning broke, there was a moment/ when light and dark shone in balance/ and if we really focused,/ we could see what was left,/ what was worthy. (The Burning).

The Mouth of Home

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Arctos Press

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. SALT AND PAPER is a daily reflection that is immediate and an accumulation of life experience in poetry and prose fragments placing a heartfelt, yet realistic light on difficult subjects as the author speaks of aging: a friend's slow demise with Alzheimer's; the lifelong effect of a brother's mental illness; the present, lived aging process; the interlacing of four generations--and, the creative, writing life that responds with compassion, humor, art.

Salt and Paper: 65 Candles

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Aging

Raw Art Press

Stirring the Waters is a beautifully written guide for learning how to live a creative life without foregoing life's necessities; how to strike a balance between feeding your spirit and paying your bills. Just as Julia Cameron helped readers explore their inner-selves in The Artist's Way, author Janell Moon invites readers, through daily writing practice, to delve into the self to affirm where one has been and how it affects the choices made and the roads taken. Stirring the Waters is both spiritual and practical, offering case studies of other seekers who have successfully written their way back to their true selves. Whether you call it a search for your muse, or your goddess, or your spirit, Moon will help you to use writing to develop your spiritual practice; to access that sense that you are connected to something greater than just your self.

Stirring the Waters: Writing to Find Your Spirit

Tuttle Pub

A heartfelt combination of spiritual discovery, environmental observations, and journal writing, The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit offers readers a 52week cycle of themed essays and related questions about the natural world. Entries on night and sky and parakeets, wind and mud and rain, snakes and tea and thistle, among others. In addition to folklore, myths, stories, and symbols connected to each theme, Janell Moon includes inspirational quotes from wellknown writers among them E. B. White, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gertrude Stein, and Mother Theresa and shares her original poetry and personal experiences with the natural world.
As she writes in the introduction, "It is my wish that through the telling of these stories, and the deepening of your own connections through your writing, that you will better enjoy a rainbow or a tree with angel's wings in a storm."

The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit: 52 Ways to Find Your Soul Voice through Journal Writing

Red Wheel

There's a lot more to prayer than kneeling. The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit author Janell Moon shows that by using The Prayer Box the deepest, truest prayers are brought to life for those who pray.
The Prayer Box contains:
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 <li>* A 96-page book that details prayer practices and shows readers how to create their own forms of prayer.</li>
<li>* A 96-page blank journal in which readers can draft their prayers.</li>
<li>* 25 prayer papers on which readers can refine and record their most-loved prayers to one or two lines.</li>
<li>* A lovely box in which to store prayers and prayer objects.</li>
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The book guides readers in the art of living prayer, explaining: how to ready themselves for prayer, why prayer is important to daily life, how to experience the power of prayers by writing them down, what to pray for in general, and what to pray for at different stages in life.
Moon offers activities and rituals that make prayers come alive using:
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<li>* Posture, breath, mind, and imagination in prayer.</li>
<li>* A "prayer tablet" to explore prayer thoughts and experiences.</li>
<li>* Candles as symbolic aids to prayer.</li>
<li>* Music and bells to encourage and shape prayer.</li>
<li>* Personal symbols that can be collected to strengthen and deepen prayer.</li>
<li>* A personal altar that gives life to prayers.</li>
<li>* Writing and ritual to enhance the meaning and experience of prayers.</li>
Beautifully written and artfully crafted, The Prayer Box is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to see prayer come to life.
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The Prayer Box: Create, Write, and Live Your Prayers

Red Wheel/Weiser

Janell Moon's collection of poetry travel across a broad landscape on fluid language and surprising combinations. From the how a mother provokes to the sweet memory of a forbidden nude nighttime swim, to the fantasy of wedding gone homoerotically awry, each poem is a piquant story seen through the window as the world flashes by. Moon's skill is evoking such a wide array of feelings-anxiety, desire, nostalgia, bemusement-it is our own lives flashing before us.Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories Janell Moon's poems are crammed with a lifetime of everyday yeaning, secret little female intimacies and personal history that positively rumbles with quiet power. This poetry is alive and electric.Michelle Tea, author of Rose of No Man's Land In these poems celebrating Janell Moon's brimming life, we meet many ordinary, unique, loved people: her grandma who makes corsets for movie starts (Judy Garland, Loretta Young), her sister, dressed as her "favorite striped shorts" on the laundry line, Janell herself as a young girl who "held her silence," Janell as a wife whose "passion was covered with the heel of America's secrets." Because they detail the necessity of that secrecy, these poems are political as well as personal. They are lyrical and sweet-and honest. Through they chronicle her life, they succeed as poems, intense and spare, rich in their psychological understanding, not burdened with plodding analysis. I like a lot her found poem from a KQED broadcast, Janell Moon grabs poetry wherever she finds it.Phyllis Koestenbaum, author of Doris Day and Kitschy Melodies

Riding Free in a Blue Studebaker

Main Street Rag

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