How can one separate time when it is all at once? My memory is an ancient one, and I love to get lost in my earliest, most natural memories. I close my eyes and see green, sparkling green. My art translates a sliver of these images. My book characters also dwell here, some in mossy hillside homes, cosy in the Earth, and covered in wildflowers. Antonia’s Bakery is a such a children’s book. My Leona novels are from another series that bridges old and new days. An enchanting new book, featuring more illustrations of natural earthen homes, is coming soon! In my stories, many ideas for preserving and appreciating nature are shared.
Below is a video about bushcraft and loving nature that feels grounding for the viewer. I came across it this week while doing some research for our woods and cottage garden. These building techniques remind me of my family now, which is my ancient soul family. We lived with the Earth and we try every day to get back to that peace. Remember when building your homes, it is important to use the most natural, non-toxic, and sustainable materials and systems. This is not only healthy for you now, but for all of the universe in all time periods. Prevent pollution and heal the Earth. Grow goodness! Love, Amor Milagre
Here is another video by a talented woman who made a similar house. I’m not into the lights, but her techniques are wonderful to learn!
Amor Milagre The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends children’s printed book and audiobook. Braille books are coming up!
All children communicate in their own way. This post is a reminder for parents, caregivers, family, and school staff to be a safe place for children so that they may feel comfortable to express themselves in any way that comes naturally.
If you don’t yet understand their beautifully unique language, it is your responsibility to find out ways to learn their language and how to teach them everything. Neglect and negativity is unacceptable and so very damaging. Bridge the communication gap. It’s all about a translation. Think of people like countries, if it helps you, to understand that we each live in our own experience of the world. Begin with love, trust, and a sensitive promise that you will help them always. Let them know: You will be there, being supportive, healthy, safe, encouraging, and inspiring. You will listen with all of your senses. Empathy is the key to every language.
Everyone learns in their own way. Everyone deserves attention, patience, love, and a real education. Each child is beautiful and intelligent. Equality for education in every way is a basic right that needs to become a reality for each child worldwide. Every person has a lifetime of wonders to live and share with the world. Be the guide, the helper, the parent.
In our homeschool, we love to learn every language. We learn with every sense. We keep our minds open and invite new ideas and connections. Learning languages is interesting, humbling, and I encourage everyone to learn as much about other cultures as possible to create awareness for world peace.
Every person, no matter the age, can resolve, redesign, and replace ways of living that we know do not work by simply living empathically. Make it all better, not worse. Confusion is the beginning of learning something new. Open your heart and find out what comes next… I’ll let you know…it’s something very good. Trust me. You’ll love it!
Love to all of the children. You deserve everything positive, respectful, inclusive, and so very kind. Shine your light! Love, Amor Milagre
The Silent Child by Rachel Shenton is a short film that sheds a profound awareness for one example of a child who needs someone to really listen and help. Redesign every educational system to help everyone. Love to all.
Leona’s Homecoming: The Love Letter Diaries, The First Year of Seasonal Festivals, 4 Novels Vol. I by Amor Milagre
In the pocket of a trusty travel bag fits a delicious novel and a sweet children’s book to savour on a train or plane, in a lamplit inn with the summer breeze kissing your robed cheeks, or swaying on a hammock in your back garden. ‘Il dolce far niente’ means the sweetness of doing nothing in Italian. Letting yourself find what you love nourishes and rejuvenates the soul. My books are for all ages and encourage authentic, kind, peaceful practices and ideas to try. I love rereading them with our family as I hope you do, too.
In this often chaotic world, I write ways to live beautifully and naturally. My characters help instead of harm. They are funny, sweet, thoughtful, and very real. I send love to anyone who must travel due to emergencies in their homeland. As I know too well, this kind of travel is not at all relaxing as a vacation would be. People leave to save their lives. They are trying to escape danger. All they had built is left behind, and they have to start over, usually with nothing. This is heartbreaking and incredibly dangerous. Precautions and safe help are urgently needed during times of war, natural disasters, and abuse. Every country must protect the rights of women and children. Re-abolish slavery for good. Replace the history of negativity with positive growth that benefits everyone. New beginnings are a chance to redesign for a better life. Although we all may miss precious things that were lost due to trauma, we can heal and rebuild a healthy future to keep all of the babies of the world safe. Peace is possible if we all choose it.
I include tragic misfortunes and terrible struggles in my books, but I paint up characters who help those in need of a positive solution to solve troubles that seem out of their control. There are too many large and small scale problems on every street and hill in the world. I write peaceful ideas in the hope that positivity will spread down those streets and over those hills to reach anyone who needs help the most. Any little bit of help can make the most important difference for one or many. I wish you a peaceful summer, and I urge everyone to do something that helps someone in the coming months. *Ask how you may help, and then listen. Work with people to solve and prevent problems. Ask if you did help, and listen again. Repeat forever.
I am working on a way for a percentage of each sale to be donated to an organization that directly aids those in need of help while searching for a safe, new home. Being forced to live a nomadic, uncertain life is cruel, dangerous, and terrifying. We all need a steady, safe home. We all can work together to help everyone have this basic need. Our world must get out of this constant survival mode and change into a deep, lasting time of healing. Equality and safety is needed worldwide.
In my gift shop, I also feature artwork and photography inspired by my travels. Nature adores us always…trailing all the way from a rose wall in Tuscany back home to a sweet rose blooming in our New England cottage garden. Help, don’t harm. Preserve nature. Enjoy your unique senses of nature.
Shop: A Gentle Life Collection
Books Sizes/Types: Digital Audio, Hardback Pocket, Digest, Square, (Paperbacks are Coming Soon)
My books are cosy to read, or listen to, when at home, on a work break or weekend, and while travelling. Many of my stories are set in New England, such as my Sage Rose Sorrel children’s books, but here are some others that you might love to tag along with as my characters explore new favourite places.
Amaranthe tells of living in NYC and France. Leona has lived in two homes in Italy: one by the mountains and one by the sea. Ellary Eden grows a helpful, enchanting garden in the Witching World! I have just finished three fresh novels for you to explore soon. There is one especially delicious new book that is set in Belgium! Every time you explore a new place, you learn so much for your life ahead.
This week, I’m re-introducing my Nursery Animal Art Collection as many new darlings will join these beauties this year. I am selling original watercolour paintings, art prints, and stationery greeting cards. Matching stationery card sets and children’s books will be released, too. I paint the animals’ essence and energy. The animals’ unique traits are clear and can be easily learned by little nature lovers. It is very important to raise awareness for preserving and respecting nature from an early age. Pollution is preventable and so is unnecessary extinction. The awe-inspiring patterns and characters of animals are forever inspiring. Many new little friends will run, hop, and splash into my shop each season. The papers are recycled and FSC Certified. I love to grow my animal family each year. I hope you will enjoy exploring my collections to mix and match the art to create your own unique art gallery and to give as special gifts for dear ones. All ages can enjoy my work, but they are especially sweet in a nursery.
Here are a few of the Best Sellers. One lady framed the leopard for her dining room. Another family bought most of the originals for their baby’s nursery. Many art prints and cards sell individually or grouped with my IllustratedGarden Alphabet Letters. New originals are coming up! Snap them up quickly, but if you don’t it’s ok…the 8X10″ prints are very clear and the ink is quite close to the original colours. I did many tests to make sure the prints were accurate. I prefer originals in our nursery. The Tiger, you see above, I reserved for our home. You may even frame the cards before or after sending to a friend. This week, these loves will run into my book file to join their connective story. Hope you have a good weekend with peaceful rest and wild daydreams.
I write loving, real, feminist characters of all genders and ages to illustrate that peace is possible. Inclusion allows everyone to feel represented, even though we are all unique beings.
During our family reading time and homeschool lessons, I have to spend energy commenting on story details that leave out reality. Too many books are not rooted in positivity, so we have to be careful what we ingest into our memories. Children are forming outlooks. Their memories are amazing. I explain why the characters have these accepted/unacceptable bad habits. Then, we talk about the contrast so that this violence is not brought into our peaceful way of living. We have to research feminist books as women have been edited out of history. Every book, even compiled works on a specific topic or over an extensive time period, only features one or two women. We have found some newly published books about women in history. Why do they have to be separate books?
How much of women’s work has been lost, ignored, stolen, or masked under a different name? It’s bad enough to have to include the violent reality of this world in our inspired, life-loving school, but for every invention or talent to be only represented by males is unacceptable. All day, we say “he, he, he, he…” Where are the women? I want to say, “She, they, he, she, she, he, they, they, she, he, he, she, he, she, they…”
I encourage authors to make up for this lack and deprivation of female inspiration. Write truly feminist books that inspire peace. My books celebrate the beautiful reality of the people in our world. Everyone is a precious soul. All genders are represented and loved. My male characters are kind, respectful, and support the women, children, males, and everyone. My LGBTIQA+ characters are amazing, inspiring, and adored. My women characters are wonderful, respected, and they support everyone. The children in my books teach us the most. They are the light of the world. All of my characters live and grow as their natural selves. There are no dividing groups, just a community of friends. Even the people who don’t have identifiers feel included, safe, and self-loving. Illness and violence are preventable. Nature and gardening are at the center of my stories. If you can take care of everything, then everyone will have what they need. Choose to live peacefully.
Female characters in many books are usually written in a way that shows nothing of our life, our struggle, our joy, our bodies, our hearts, and our thoughts. I write books to include our real lives to show how easily our world can be feminist. There is so much work that needs to be done to help women. Equality is the basic first step. Respect is a choice. Choose to respect women and everyone. Love, Amor Milagre
