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 🌻

 

 

MARCH 2026 

432HZ;

The Magic and Mystery of Sound and Music

By Jonas Malvik

Published 2019

Check out this link to learn a little more about Jonas (also known as Sono Lumin).

Experience some of his tracks here and here

Find out more info about the book at Amazon

 

An excerpt from the introduction of the book:

"I guess I was about 27 years old when I first heard about  432 hz tuning. By this time I had already been into meditation, spirituality and sort of "alternative" thinking for a long time. I do not remember exactly where and how I came across it, but it was definitely on the internet and since I was into music and all kinds of new angles with which to look at the world it sparked my curiosity immediately. Because of my musical experience I understood right away how to tune down and decided to try with my acoustic guitar. 

I was blown away. The instrument sounded much richer and it resonated a lot longer than it had ever done before. 

With almost everything I played in this tuning I was pulled into that hypnotic and meditative state. I was sold and I have not looked back since. I continued recording "regular" music for a while, tuned to 432 but not making a thing of it, but I researched everything I could on this way of tuning, sound healing, sound therapy, shamanism, meditation, sound yoga, etc, and I soon realised that this was the only way I could ever make music and that the world needed these frequencies and this knowledge. I also learned that there was a lot of misinformation out there and I felt a strong urge to get the truth out." 

 📚  Children's Bookshelf!  📚 

 

MARCH 2026 

My First Classical Music Book

By Genevieve Helsby

Published 2009

 Watch this video and check out this link to find out more about this delightful book (which comes with a CD too).

Learn more about the author Genevieve Helsby here.

In this book, you can:

1) READ about classical music.

2) LISTEN to classical music.

Each section in the book has a 'music bird'. He tells you about the the music on the CD.

 

Below is an excerpt from this vibrant and interactive book:

"String Family

 Violin

The violin is a bit like a human body: it has a 'neck', a 'back', a 'belly, and it can sing!

But to make it sing, you have to play it. You can:

1) Pull or push the bow across the violin's strings.

2) Pluck the srings with your fingers.

In the string family, the violin is a show-off. It can sound fantastic.

The Music...

A man called Paganini played the violin 200 years ago.

He was so good, people called him a wizard.

His fingers danced, like little acrobats, all over the violin. He wrote music, too..."

                           

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