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Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind
Traveling Light is a book unlike any other. With gentle humor & quirky insight, Brian Andreas helps us remember the quiet world behind the often frantic one we inhabit.
Hardcover, 80 pages
Published
June 28th 2003
by Storypeople
(first published June 2003)
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Brian Andreas has a quiet voice that really complements the book's message. The main theme is that there is a soul that can not be seen, yet it hums through our bodies and in the earth. Unlike a song, our souls are like lights, and that is why it is called "Traveling Lights": he's referring to people. To flesh out his book, Brian analyzes our deepest, resonating thoughts in a most humanistic method: through poetry and doodles splattered with mix-matched water colors. Each little passage pulses w...more
I love this little book. I met Brian at the LA Book Expo back in 2003 and I have been reading, gifting, and rereading this book ever since. The short quotes and poems are all insightful and amusing. I also love his Story People and have his Flying Woman hanging in my kitchen. "For a long time, she flew only when she thought no one else was watching."
Great fun to read with the whimsy childlike art: inspiring both artistically and idealogically. Quote: carries a lot of suitcases - but all of them are empty - because she's expecting - to completely fill them - with life by the end of - this trip -- & then she'll come home - & sort everything out - & do it all again - Veteran Traveller.
I have 5 Brian Andreas books sitting on one of my nightstands. I got them shortly after I bought my first house. I was so inspired by them I also got 7 pieces of his watercolors framed. These books are AMAZING for a quick note or burst of inspiration.
I love these stories, poems, and drawings! I have one of their paintings in my house!!!! I also get their daily stories via e-mail ;)
My find in a second hand book store. Love the tiny stories and drawings and full of great quotes.
Incredibly insightful little wonder recommended by a kind and wonderful person.
This is a book I read all the time. it is a book of short poems and sayings that are enlightening and quixotic and utterly delightful. You will find yourself laughing at how they describe people you know. My favorite one that describes my husband:
"I like animals in the abstract," he said.
"What does that mean?" she asked.
"It means that animal hair makes me queasy", he answered
I'm might be paraphrasing - but that's close. and that perfectly describes my husband - in so many ways, not just about a...more
"I like animals in the abstract," he said.
"What does that mean?" she asked.
"It means that animal hair makes me queasy", he answered
I'm might be paraphrasing - but that's close. and that perfectly describes my husband - in so many ways, not just about a...more
Love it, love it.
Love it!
I can't say enough about how beautiful Brian's writing is. This collection of musings, ramblings, and poetry is full of the sort of simple, profound,and slap-you-in-the-face-accurate observations on life with the purity of a child's voice or a sage's experience. This is not a book to be read in an hour, though you certainly could. It should be savored on the tongue, chewed slowly, and swallowed only after you have enjoyed thoroughly.
This is the only book of his that didn't just shine at me right away. But a few years and several readings later, I love it as much as the rest.
"Finally realizes that all the chaos is what makes tea worth it." Final Reward- Brian Andreas
I love Brian Andreas' art and simple words of wisdom.
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Brian Andreas (born 1956 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American writer, painter, sculptor and publisher. Most notable of his works are the StoryPeople objects he makes using salvaged wood from old rural homesteads. These mixed-media works include a short story that focuses on a moment or a memory, and the deliberately crude folk-art-like shapes display bright yet soothing colors and shadowy amorphous...more
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“You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go.
Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up.
You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you:
Today, no matter what it takes,
we ride home together.”
—
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Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go.
Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up.
You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you:
Today, no matter what it takes,
we ride home together.”
“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love
And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,
But this will not be one of them.”
—
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And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,
But this will not be one of them.”
