{"id":3274,"date":"2020-01-17T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2020-01-17T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:19:57","slug":"ode-to-friendship-in-soft-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"ode to friendship in soft light…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(a long story about shorter things\u2026)<\/em>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is this book that I have been holding for more than a year now,
it is a book of smallish proportions, yet only in size and certainly not
in stature.
I don\u2019t so often read books of short essays, or short stories.\u00a0 I find in reading I like to have all of the bits connect in a more familiar way, if that makes any sense.
However this book, this lovely little book
fit just so perfectly into a spot I had for just such a read, in small snippets of time, on work and lunch breaks. So I have been travelling back and forth to work with it for well over a year now, taking it in little delicious nibbles.
The flower can always be changing by Shawna Lemay<\/em><\/strong>
who happens to be a friend of mine, (partially why I snagged it hot off the presses)
a friend by way of the very modern world version of a pen-pal, who I \u2018know\u2019 but have not met.\u00a0 A friend indeed much cooler than I, as she is a writer and photographer whose husband is an artist, whose daughter seems equally, delightfully as creative and is a vision of unique pinkish perfection.\u00a0
A friend who I first connected with through her blog Calm Things<\/em>, and the new one Transactions With Beauty, <\/em> who speaks in words, poetry and pictures, sometimes music that often feel so very familiar. A friend with far more knowledge of said things, as these are
a few of my favourite things \u266a\u266a
of course isn\u2019t this how one recognizes a friend
by familiar
stirrings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shawna\u2019s first novel Rumi and the Red Handbag <\/em>was also a book I loved and have gushed about many times in person as well as on my own blog, so I was certainly in no way surprised to feel equally as enamoured with this one,\u00a0 but what a true treasure this little gem turned out to be.
So many times I read a page and with a small sigh and a smile thought,\u00a0 \u2018that\u2026\u00a0 is my favourite one\u2019\u00a0 – only to then read another line or two and feel exactly the same way.
This is a book, I continuously look forward to opening again and again just to revisit a gorgeously simple yet vastly profound thought and feeling.\u00a0 I adore it,\u00a0 every last word of it, I adore it.\u00a0 The subject, the focus, the cover, the flowers, the words, the feelings, the observations, the familiar glimpses of beauty in everyday ordinary (and not so) life. I adore it all.
To the lovely Shawna Lemay, what a blessing you are \u2013 I hope you never stop sharing your beauty, in words, in pictures, in music and poetry\u2026\u00a0 as it is,
quite simply.. \u00a0
I adore you,
my friend.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with much gratitude \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(a long story about shorter things\u2026) There is this book that I have been holding for more than a year now,it is a book of smallish proportions, yet only in size and certainly not in stature. I don\u2019t so often…
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