July 28/New Moon

musings on the end at the beginning of a lunation

not the new moon, but a moon none-the-less.

As I understand it, this is the time of the Lunation that menstruators and small children would gather together in the Red Tent and have their time apart from the rest of the world. I don’t have a source for this, unless you count The Red Tent by Anita Diamant which I read years ago when traveling to Israel. It…