Alexandra Chan’s In the Garden Behind the Moon is a beautiful gift to the world. I’m struggling for words to express the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, visual, and magical journey because there’s nothing else like it. Told from her unique perspective cultivated from Chan’s multi-faceted background and interests, the brilliant and heart-felt writing is a personal and relatable story of grief, family history, and love. It is interspersed with art, poetry, lore, history, science, psychology, and so much more that is so skillfully woven together. I can only describe it as healing. It is a mirror for us to see and be seen.
“The stories we are told, which we eventually tell ourselves, influence the way we show up in the world. Stories become everything we think we know about our universe, others, and ourselves. Personal mythology is our horizon, where the sun rises and lights the world, where it sets and creates shadows and dark corners. It reflects us back to ourselves, shows us where we have been, where we fear to tread, and all the places we could yet go.”
Make yourself a cup of ginger tea and prepare to travel the Moon Road.
“The stories we are told, which we eventually tell ourselves, influence the way we show up in the world. Stories become everything we think we know about our universe, others, and ourselves. Personal mythology is our horizon, where the sun rises and lights the world, where it sets and creates shadows and dark corners. It reflects us back to ourselves, shows us where we have been, where we fear to tread, and all the places we could yet go.”
Make yourself a cup of ginger tea and prepare to travel the Moon Road.