"when you have created a beautiful thing, that is happiness. but the next happiness is to find someone who understands what you have done and knows that it is beautiful."

- the wind boy, ethel cook eliot, 1923

thank you http://fuloflyfe.blogspot.com for your generosity and the capturing of your appreciation in wonderous, ethereal imagery of my tiny world of creative happiness.

love, love, love and deep appreciation.

escaping into children's literature in this darker part of the year.

the secret garden -frances hodgson burnett

the evolution of calpurnia tate -jacqueline kelly

the kitchen madonna -rumer godden

......some of my favorite recent escapes : )

beautiful stories of children blooming into new parts of themselves.

needing such hopeful, happy endings as i wait on the unfoldings of spring.