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Above all, Moore insists, we must not turn away. We will understand that we are

daughters of the Earth, pulled from her spinning surface. And so we will take on the

duties of the moon. We will not look away. The shadow of the Earth will pass over our

faces, but it will not erase us; at the edge of that moving shadow, our faces, our

characters, will be most clearly seen. We will reflect the light that comes to us from the

darkest spaces of the night.

Great Tide Rising is itself a luminous act of bearing witness, and a grand refugia of the

imagination. Under its shelter, inspired by its example, may we humans come together

in the one thing that has the power to change history—a great rising wave of moral

outrage at the plunder and the wreckage, and an affirmation of a better way...

*Thanks to Sue Cerulean who sent me this book no doubt knowing that I would have to write

about it

Lise Weil is editor of Dark Matter Women Witnessing. She
was founder and editor of the US feminist review Trivia: A

Journal of Ideas (1982-1991) and co-founder of its online

offshoot Trivia: Voices of Feminism, which she edited through

2011 and which is now published by an editorial collective at

the University of Arizona ( www.triviavoices.com ). Her
memoir, In Search of Pure Lust, will be published by

Shewrites Press in 2018. She lives in Montreal.

Lise teaches in Goddard College’s Graduate Institute. She

recently edited Teaching Transformation: Progressive

Education in Action, a collection of essays by visionary
faculty, students and alumni. Goddard’s embodied pedagogy

is a profound challenge to the hierarchical, dissociative

structures of traditional education and is medicine for an

ailing world. Elizabeth Minnich: "It is my profound conviction, an increasingly urgent one, that

this book...ought be read and talked about as widely as possible." Download it for free at
https://worldsofchange.com/book/ Or order through Amazon for $15.