"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world.
Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]
‘…a most beautiful day for you today’
- a gentle blessing whispered into my ear just now by a beautiful Indian forest woman whose name means protector - now passed forward to you.
This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest [...]
Below are some answers by Isaac Bashevis Singer (taken from his Nobel Prize for Literature Banquet Speech).
To his sentiments I add my own - they are much more fun books to write!
"…There are five hundred reasons why I began to write for children, but to save time I [...]
I was walking barefoot in a grassy field today, as you do, and found myself stung by some nettles. Upon realising, I started to scratch.
Quickly, my walking partner jumped to where I was bent, picked some leaves from the plant neighbouring the offender and told me to rub them on the sting. The [...]
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