Across the splendid spare verses, against the deliberate creative limitation of a greyscale-and-yellow color palette, a sweeping richness of emotional hues unfolds."
Corianna Luyken
"Emotional Intelligence Primer in the Form of an Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Poem About Our Capacity for Love"
"From moments of great joy and exuberance to necessary times of quiet contemplation..."
Grow 
“How is your Heart?” I recently asked a friend going through a trying period of overwork and romantic tumult, circling the event horizon of burnout while trying to bring a colossal labor of love to life. His answer, beautiful and Heartbreaking, came swiftly, unreservedly, the way words leave children’s lips simple, sincere, and poetic, before adulthood has learned to complicate them out of the poetry and the sincerity with considerations of reason and self-consciousness: “My Heart is too busy to be a Heart,” he replied..." source: BrainPickings article
"...It’s a whisper that can barely be heard... I get to decide..." 
Joy and solace in this labor of love
“Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, Knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face.” ~ Tom Stoppard
"....Laid lovers and empires at its altar — " source: BrainPickings article about
My Heart by Corianna Luyken
Newest publication Nothing in Common
"Ode to love and self-acceptance" ~ intro on flap dust cover :) I rec'd my copy. yay!
Public Library of New London "find" : Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group 2019
Question: "How does the human heart — that ancient beast, whose...
"...Roars and purrs have inspired sonnets and ballads and wars..." source: BrainPickings article
"Some days it is tiny, but tiny can grow… and grow… and grow."
"...Tessellated capacities of the heart...love as a practice rather than a state... how it can frustrate us, brighten us, frighten us, and ultimately expand us."
"...Unbusy itself from self-consciousness and learn to be a heart ... and Ultimately expand us"Visionary: someone who imagines with wisdom what the future can be
"With lyrical text and breathtaking art, My Heart empowers all readers to listen to the guide Within in this ode to love and self-acceptance." source
eXceptional! This post is my review :)
"Your heart is your guide."
"recogniZing its many manifestations" from review @ www.corinnaluyken.com
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