Welcome to Litsy!

Wow. My first Wagamese, bought last summer on my trip to Canada - definitely not my last. At first I thought these snippets would be hard to read, as they come from social media posts and excerpts from both published and unfinished works, but the beauty, truth, and wisdom here is astounding. The book itself is gorgeous, shades of blue throughout the pages and pops of orange in the endpapers. The introduction warns to go slowly and savor this. Do.

The whole passage is great, and ends with: So inhabit what you read. Allow it to fill you. Let the intent of the spirit of the story take you where it will. Stories and books are tools of understanding on the journey of coming to know. Pick them up. Carry them. This is what I carrier away. This is the message I brought to my own storytelling to here, to this page, stark in its blankness, waiting like me to be imagined, to be filled.

In the end, that‘s the most warrior-like thing you can do, she told me: to care for the people around you, to place their needs ahead of your own.

(1) I always have multiple books on the go BUT rarely read more than one fictional book at a time.

(2) I have to name a few as favourites
“What Comes from Spirit” - Richard Wagamese
“Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in He Head”.
By Warsan Shire
“Transcendent Kingdom” - Yaa Gyasi
“The Body Keeps Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk

I can‘t think of any I panned …thanks Litsy!

#wonderouswednesday

This is a physically and writingly gorgeous book. Perfect for small moments of contemplation, and the book itself is stunning: deep blue cover, vibrant orange endpapers. Borrowed this from the library but will buy my own copy.