Joyce Sidman and Beth Krommes books

"...As clouds gather and heavy flakes fall...

"...Change the world before morning... make it slow and

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Delightful!"

"...Earth turn to sugar...and all that is heavy, turn light."

"Family revels in the Freedom and peace that snow brings" front flap of Before Morning

"Graceful, strong, and bold..." ~ Swirl by Swirl : Spirals in Nature

 

"How powerful are words? Can they make things happen? Stop them from happening? Can they protect us? Comfort us? Enchant us? ...Humans have been using invocations for thousands of years, to soothe the body and strengthen the soul..." - J.S.

"Illustrations of astonishingly beautiful scratch-board art..."  front flap of Before Morning

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 Joyce Sidman and Illustrator Beth Krommes' books have captivated me

Krommes is the Caldecott-winning artist of The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson

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"Let quick things be swaddled...Let the air turn to feathers"

Make it slow... Make it snow

Nurtured by Nature

"Please -- just this once 

"...Quick things be swaddled"

"Rises above the sleeping city. A too-busy world falls silent..." Before Morning

 

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"Urgent plans founder [become disabled]"

"...Written in the form of an invocation - a poem that invites something to happen, often asking for help or support...What is it you wish for? Find the best words for that wish and speak them aloud. Maybe, in the deep woolen dark, snowflakes will begin to fall..." - J.S.

these kind of look like Xs... here's mine

Yes!

01.30.2022

Zen moments in the early morning after "Bomb Cyclone Nor'easter Blizzard"