Nurture Young Minds

Sometimes our readers express the essence of our books better than we could. We loved this review from Simon - and could not agree with the sentiment more :)

If the world events of the past two weeks have taught us anything, it's that our worlds needs more wisdom. It's too late for some folks ... but there's still hope for the next generation.

William Blake's poem, Eternity, has grown to become a personal favourite:

"He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sun rise."

I only came across it after The Gift was published, but find that it most eloquently captures the wisdom in our fourth Willow the Wonderer book.

At around 2am this morning, a note from a customer came through on my email. I was awake at the time, having been unable to sleep all night...

I was working through some insecurities that had been triggered earlier in the day by some not-so-nice comments on the internet. Being an online business which has to be active on social media, this is something that we unfortunately cannot avoid.

Thankfully, I have learnt enough wisdom not to react to those but there is still a period of time when these can trigger awful thoughts and feelings or sensations in the body ...

As I lay observing them, I had a feeling to look at the phone, and that's when I saw Jocelyn's note.

It was the soothing balm I needed at the time - within minutes I fell into an easy sleep :)