Gratitude – For the LOVE of BOOKS.

There’s so much in my life that I’m grateful for but one thing stands alone. No matter what I’m going through my love of books has given me a means to cope with life’s woes. I read every day, every time I go to bed or when I stop to for lunch. Read, read, read, read, read …  There’s a quote I’ve always loved and until I shared the journey of Katy and her boys it was simply a quote I loved. It’s still a quote I love but now I know it’s TRUE!

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
~ Emilie Buchwald

Grateful – Togetherness. 

Words by Katy Carolyn

So, how important are books? And what about authors? I mean, isn’t writing a quaint retirement hobby?
Pfft! Bull dust! The right book, the right word smith, has a Gift to lift us all…

My kids are free and moving forward with a hunger for life as kids should, a hunger to learn, taking courage in their own lives from their fictional heroes’ examples and all because they fell under Carmel’s spell and they love Dani and Yatmi and the whole family of Dalry.

They are now using descriptive language, they are engaging with my horses again, they are Dreaming big, their minds are exploring and expanding again. These books have been healing and inspiring. How does a mum describe what that really means?

A whole lifetime of hope! A burden lifted also…

My perspective is this, there is nothing more important for their future, and how they tackle it and enjoy it. We all have a special book we fell in love with that somehow changed us and made us more of ‘ourself’, our Best Self.

Danikah and Yatimah, both books so far, are those books for my boys. Everything has changed for them. For us. Bless you Carmel, with all of a mother’s heart! Your words inspire and allow others to ‘travel’ to places they’ve never been and to think of bigger things than themselves… even to reconnect with intuition as your characters do, adding richness, meaning and colour to life… not “just” a character in a book.

Few people know what books really do… they lift the collective consciousness higher, but only some Writers have the Gift to do that. I personally rank you alongside my other heroine, Jane Austen.

Thank you dear lady, we are all eagerly awaiting the next chapters in the lives of Dani and Yatmi!

Read more about Danika and Yatimah at www.carmelrowley.com.au

My gratitude to Katy, your words of such enormous encouragement are greatly appreciated. For everyone, I will try my best, though sometimes it feels as if I am working against the odds! To the horse people, it sounds like horse breeding doesn’t it;-). Independent/Self Publishing would have to be one of the most challenging but rewarding things to do. I will persist for those who love what I do to write you stories to lose yourself in, to occasionally learn something from but most of all enjoy.  Carmel