Recommended Reading

It's turning into one of Those Days when a million different things to do are standing between me and studio time. Since the post I'd intended for today must be postponed till tomorrow, may I recommend a few good reads on other sites for your morning dose of inspiration?

Wallace Stevens on Reality, Creativity, & Our Greatest Self-Protection from the Pressure of the News by Maria Popova
Willie Miller & the Sleeper in the Cave by Katherine Langerish
Medieval Robin Hood: Fold Carnivals & Ballads by Mark Truesdale
Celtic Fantasy and War: Patricia Lynch & William Croft Dickinson by Rob Maslen
Six of the Best Fairy Tales, chosen by Sylvia Linsteadt
Michael Cunningham's A Wild Swan & Other Tales, reviewed by Carina Bissett
Helena Kelly's Jane Austen, the Secret Radical, reviewed by Ruth Franklin
Have a Carrot, Have Two (on Margaret Wise Brown) by Glen Roven
Ursula Nordstrom & the Queer History of Children's Books by Kelly Blewett
Why I Came Out as a Gay Children's Book Author by Alexander London
Speaking of Nature by Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding Sweetgrass)
Noticing Nature: Forest Bathing & Mindfulness by Hannah Velten
Be More Dog by Sarah Pinborough

The art above is by the wonderful Austrian illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger.