Be like a bird ... outstretch your wings.

 

Begin the journey of learning something new!

 

🕊️ Just fly 🕊️...

 

as you never know where your wings will take you!!

 

~ Paula St L 2022 🌻

 

 

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

 

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

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Paula's Reading Nook for 2025!

January: Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion - By Kay Milton

February: The Soul of a Tree: A Woodworker's Reflections - By George Nakashima

March: Chinese Flower Painting Techniques - By Stephen Cassettari

April: Care of Australian Wildlife: For Gardeners, Landholders and Wildlife Carers - By Erna Walraven

May: Hush - By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

June: The Far Reaches of Human Nature - By Abraham H. Maslow

July: Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, and the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner - By Roger J. Horne

August: Emma Kunz: Artist, Researcher, Healer (Monograph) - By Anton C. Meier et al.

September: The Secret Lives of Colour - By Cassie St Clair

October: The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space - By Michael J. Morgan

November: Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour - By David R. Hawkins

December: What's Your Grief Lists to Help You Through Any Loss - By Eleanor Haley and Litsa Williams

 

Children's Bookshelf for 2025!

January: I Am Odd I Am New - By Benjamin Giroux

February: The Lost Girl - By Ambelin Kwaymullina

March: Creative Crafts: Practical Techniques for all Junior Craftspeople - By Moira Butterfield

April: Magic Beach - by Alison Lester

May: How the Birds got their Colours: An Aboriginal Story - by Mary Albert

June: Dear Wild Child: You Carry Your Home Inside You - by Wallace J. Nichols and Wallace Grayce Nichols

July: The Cats' Pawbook - by Katie and Sam Carey

August: The Great Big Book of Feelings - by Mary Hoffman

September: Thank you Rain - by Sally Morgan

October: The River - by Sally Morgan

November: Make Meatballs Sing: The Life and Art of Sister Corita Kent - by Matthew Burgess

December: Oh, The Places You'll Go - By Dr. Seuss

 

Try your local library for a copy. 

If the book is not available, request an inter-library loan or suggest a purchase!

Best wishes, Paula 🌻

 

 

 JULY 2026

Gifts from Eykis

By Dr Wayne W. Dyer

Published 1983

Check out this link to learn more about the self-help author, motivational speaker, and spiritual teacher, Wayne Dyer.

Find out more about the book here, and browse his book collection.

Watch a review about the book here.

 

An excerpt from the book:

Chapter 7, "Reality-Only Conversations"

"The people of your world must try to find joy and serenity within themselves

and take that energy into everything they do.

If they follow this path, the symbols of success will follow, and will arrive in sufficient amounts.

People who continue to chase the symbols of success will find these symbols eluding them,

and, even more devastatingly, they will suffer from the widespread disease of MORE.

She stopped and looked right at me. "Have I said it clearly enough?" she asked.

"Quite," I replied, "but what is the disease of more?"

"On Earth, more is the sickness that keeps people from ever arriving at now.

You have a world of strivers when you could have a world of arrivers.

When you work for money and what it can bring you in the future,

then 'what-it-can-bring-in-the-future' becomes the reason for working and accumulating money.

This means that no matter how much you accumulate, you'll never arrive,

because what you have can only be seen for 'what-it-will-bring-in-the-future.' 

I've seen business people seriously afflicted with this 'more' malady.

They have accumulated more than they could ever spend, and yet they use their minds

to remind themselves that they must still acquire more.

They pursue 'more' and 'better' to such an extent that they destroy themselves

and begin to believe in an even more destructive form of wrong thinking.

They subscribe to the incorrect thought that they are what they do," she said."

pp. 129-130

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 📚  Children's Bookshelf!  📚 

 

JUly 2026 

Learning to Learn Pocketbook

By Tom Barwood

Illustrated by Phil Hailstone

Published 2005

Check out this link to find out more about this little gem of a pocketbook full of strategies and study skills for learning to learn.

Learn more about Tom Barwood and Phil Hailstone.

 

Below are two extracts from the book's chapter entitled "The Big Picture":

The power of learning

"Many of us assume that learning is something we should be able to do,

that some people are good learners and others poor learners.

Learning is actually an active process that can be learned and applied to a wide variety of situations.

Unfortunately, many people don't know what that active process is -

or they've never had it explained to them; 

they just assume they are poor learners.

 

Other people believe themselves to be good learners, but in fact they've developed

a range of quite inefficient methods for learning which they can either apply only in a 

limited number of circumstances or which are harder work than they should be.

Either way, there is always the potential to improve your learning power." p. 10

 

Your passport to success

"Learning to learn is a skill for life.

It is not something you need for school that becomes redundant when you leave.

In a world of accelerated change and progress the ability to keep on

learning, unlearning and relearning is vital for you to be successful.

The ability to learn is probably the most powerful visa you can have stamped in your 'passport to success'.

Being a good learner gives you the ability to deal creatively with any challenge that comes

your way and the freedom to pursue any area of interest in your life.

By contrast, not being able to learn leaves you stuck, frustrated and powerless.

So whether you want to pass a GCSE, program a computer, sing a song or build a boat then read on." p. 11

   

                     P.S. Keep an eye out for my new channel, "Learning to Learn", arriving on my daily inspiration blog, Enjoy, in the near future!                       

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Updated 26-07-2026