There was this elephant…
AN UNFORGETTABLE ENCOUNTER
There was this elephant…
PASSING THE TORCH
Reading a book recently about a grief-stricken young boy who goes searching for his dead mother, halfway through it I found myself feeling positively giddy.
DISABLED, BUT NOT DERANGED
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it” says Joan Didion, a writer who suddenly became a widow and decided to pull no punches about the grieving process.
MAGIC IN OUR MIDST
Do any intuitives perch in the branches of your family tree?
A VOTE FOR LOVINGKINDNESS
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
—Henry James
I am writing this on the day before the U.S. presidential election and there are only a few drops, a mere dribble, left in the proverbial cup of kindness.
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THE FORGETTING TIME
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—Shakespeare
Between the ages of three and five, every so often my youngest grandson would insist that I, too, was his mother.
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CRY, HEART, BUT NEVER BREAK
Death is not the opposite of life, but part of it.
—Haruki Harakami
Today, I shine a light on a Danish story in which four young children make the acquaintance of the grim reaper. In this particular “grim reaper’s” defense (and mine), the picture book Cry, Heart, But Never Break reveals Death as less grim than empathetic—even compassionate enough to have left his scythe outside at the door.
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WAR & PAX
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children.
—Madeleine L′Engle
Some books won’t let go. Two such children′s books have come into my life in recent months.
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