{"id":1839,"date":"2014-03-23T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2014-03-23T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:02:08","slug":"pazzia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2014\/03\/23\/pazzia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pazzia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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English translation from Italian, lunacy.\u00a0 So apparently I wasn\u2019t the only one believing that this was a bad moon but is there really any such thing?\u00a0 Does the full moon really have the mystical power to induce lunacy?\u00a0 Does the state of \u201cmoonstruck\u201d trigger erratic behavior, increase drunkenness, traffic accidents, homicides (ok I stopped short of homicide) and arrests (no bail money was needed this time)?\u00a0\u00a0 Why else would police departments, emergency rooms and suicide hot lines add personnel to cope with the \u201cheightened incidents\u201d?<\/p>\n

Believe it or not the jury is still out on the validity of lunacy, originally referring to insanity of an intermittent kind attributed to changes of the moon.\u00a0 There are, of course, several theories; the most widely held has to do with the effect of the full moon on water.\u00a0 Miami psychiatrist, Arnold Lieber, \u201cthe full moon\u2019s supposed effects on behavior arise from its influence on water. The human body, after all, is about 80 percent water, so perhaps the moon works its mischievous magic by somehow disrupting the alignment of water molecules in the nervous system.\u201d\u00a0 Not many in the scientific community are buying it, seems the gravitational effects of the moon are tiny tiny tiny. And the water that is affected by the moon is open water, and the effects are the same for the new moon, which we can\u2019t even see.<\/p>\n

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More and more studies are not endorsing the lunacy theories of the ages.\u00a0 More and more studies are pointing toward\u2026.urban legend.\u00a0 Hollywood has helped with the legend part of it, nothing short of a full moon will do as the music rises and the scream is imminent.\u00a0 Please.<\/p>\n

One of the more interesting theories was raised by Charles L. Raison, Emory University. He seemed to think that the effect may have been genuine at one time; before the advent of outdoor lighting the bright light of the full moon deprived people who were living outside of sleep.\u00a0 Ok, I have never lived outside but I can assure you no amount of black out blinds, drapes can prevent the full moon from seeping into my bedroom at night.\u00a0 This theory I can work with.<\/p>\n

Whatever your beliefs the full moon does\u2026something.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what but I know like I know that the end of last week brought me to a table in a little dive bar with four other women who, unprovoked (except that they read my post last week) sat down hard and said this was a bad moon.<\/p>\n

Each had a story of crazy customers, spouses, children and they were sticking to it.\u00a0 That said, I can\u2019t think of a better way to end a full moon week than with these women.\u00a0 The laugher and stories just kept coming.\u00a0 Our only similarity is that we work in the same business, we are each\u00a0 very different people but together we made an otherwise difficult week manageable.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t laughed all week and here I hadn\u2019t stopped.<\/p>\n

One of these wonderful women caught my eye and said, you did this.\u00a0 You got us here.\u00a0 What a wonderful compliment. \u00a0There was a moment just after that when I felt as if I was out of body, the background noise faded away and as I looked around the table at these women, who each had their own life rant going on, I knew (like I knew) that this week was truly done. \u00a0I believe they knew it to.\u00a0 It\u2019s no wonder we vow to do this each month, so no one gets hurt including each of us.<\/p>\n

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