Can You Hear The Earth Sing?
"What are you doing Don Pancho?""I'm listening to the earth sing, mi'jita."
So begins the hauntingly lovely conversation between a little girl and her friend, the village elder, Don Pancho about the wonders of nature. The whimsical notes of the "songs" the earth sings will tickle the imagination, and delight children as well as adults. The implicit lesson about paying attention to our connection with nature, getting so quiet you can hear a "star's lullaby to the trees" is gently cloaked in lyrical word pictures that invoke the southwestern flavor and landcape that inspired the story.
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From butterflies to flowers to storms to sunsets, the colors that occur in nature are a dazzling rainbow of choices. Nowhere have I seen colors that took my breath away more than the thousand and one shades of blue that you see flying over the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. That is the first place that I truly knew the meaning of azure blue. Isle of Makai is a child of that first flight and the wonder of the islands. |
The Isle of Makai is a whimsical tale of a grumpy, but kind King who banishes colors from his island kingdom, and how young Sophronia and her beautiful pygmy goat Tinker help the King save the Many of our fondest memories of moments in nature have to do with her extraordinary palette of colors.