The intensity of summer is everywhere. The early morning sun rays strike mercilessly the virgin nature, the oceans, forests, tropics and horizons that overflow with beauty and brilliance, And also little gardens, and wide beaches of endless seas that get lost in the gaze, and little creatures that surround us and sneakily remind us that we are not alone.
Because life is alive and flourishing, it is also twilight and fading, but it is always surrounded by a glimmer of hope with wonderful little things like a flower, a few petals, a moment of incomparable spark. “Time is a Flower” (Joventot Editorial, 2023) is one of these intangible and luminous metaphors that are embodied in a wonderful literary proposal, a meditation on the nature of time, its flexibility and at the same time its fragility, a magical parallel with colors, events and explorations through the eyes of a child.
What is time, and how to define such a complex term and become an almost poetic metaphysics with evocative words and images, subtle and highly allusive to each particular look.
Julie Maurstad is a Canadian writer and illustrator specializing in children’s books. She divides her time between drawing, illustrating, animating, and designing, with many creative collaborations and initiatives that reflect her sensitive and curious personality. “Time is a Flower” is in itself a mysterious message to be heeded, bringing children and young readers closer to the sublimity, value and sensitivity of time.
With this work, Julie Maurstad was recognized as a Best Children’s Book by the New York Public Library and one of the Best Toronto Public Libraries in 2021. Fleeing time, disappearing time, secret time, the fleeting, uncontrollable moment, a part of time that we long for when we see it pass; The Treasure of Time is a quiet, magical, and essential proposition.
In these sunny “Words of the Full Moon”, enjoy the most delightful and introspective literary holiday, and with an invitation to remember, with a complicit gaze full of light, always on the side of disagreement with compassion. “Sensory Diagnosis” by Eva Villarasa Colomer (Editorial Comanegra, 2020) is comfort and faith in many often unknown realities. Eva Villarasa brings us closer to another reality thanks to her work as a leisure monitor at Nexe Fundació, an organization that cares for children with severe disabilities, and through this book she wanted to make her daily life visible.
The first step to shaking hands is precisely to change one’s personal model, to be convinced of belonging to a diverse and needy world, fragile and afraid of not receiving our human and sensitive understanding. Short stories with endless reads, emotional stories that are striking and sentimental; stories that speak to us and need to be raised more to get a response with a preconceived attitude.
Research, inquiry and above all collective awareness to weave a more respectful society with people with minority diseases and to know the difficulties they face every day. All profits are dedicated entirely to research and education in the Hebron Valley.
Two proposals that bring us closer to our transcendent, spiritual, human and sensitive soul in this hectic and individualistic world. Literature for reconciliation with one’s own life, other points of view are very important.
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