Just before the crack of dawn, Stanley Ann Dunham made it a ritual to wake up her daughter Maya to gaze at the moon. As Maya complained about being sleepy, Dunham would share with her “moon baby” stories about life and about the importance of empathy, love and global interconnectedness.
A few decades later, the lessons Maya Soetoro-Ng’s mother taught her would become more urgent than ever after the shocking terrorist attacks in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.