Annalisa Rabitti, Martino has Wheels
Martino and Emma are two schoolmates. She is a storyteller and uses speech as an extraordinary gift not to be wasted. He, on the other hand, is a ‘quiet child’ - that is exactly how Emma defines him - a child who moves with the wheels, who does not express himself by speaking and who sometimes shows reactions that are difficult to understand. There is little contact between the two until Emma finds in Martin the ideal listener to her stories: a patient, attentive, respectful listener. The narrative thus nurtures an intimacy made up of small, delicate gestures. Emma, and with her the reader, discovers that not speaking does not necessarily mean not listening or not communicating, and she begins to make
Dr Susan Nolen-Hoehìksema, Woman Who Think too Much
‘My brain never stops.’ How many times have we said or heard that? Many women are all too familiar with the feeling of feeling suffocated by thoughts, emotions, worries overlapping out of control. What am I doing with my life? What do others think of me? Why am I not satisfied? Will I be good enough? Is my partner still interested in me? Why does my son talk back to me? Why do I feel so frustrated and anxious? Thinking too much - rumination
Estelle Condra, See The Ocean
Nellie loves the ocean. Every year she travels with her family over the Black Mountains to their beach house. And every year her two brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean through the mountain passes. Nellie never competes-until this year. This year, the mountains are blanketed in a heavy mist, and no one can see the ocean-no one except Nellie.
Bernard Waber, Ask me
On a beautiful autumn afternoon, father and daughter walk in the park.
“What do you like?”
“I like horses.”
“Ask me what else I like.”
“What else do you like?”
“I like digging in the sand...”
Moments of ordinary happiness, in an ordinary day that becomes unique and special, in the spoken dialogue and gestures that deeply connect a dad and his baby.
Wayne W Dyer, Change your thoughts, change your life
Half a millennium before Christ, one of the greatest figures in Chinese philosophy, Laozi, dictated the 81 verses of the Tao Te Ching, the basis of Taoism. That text represents the Way or Path to be followed in order to lead a balanced, spiritual, moral and good-focused existence. In this book, Dyer has written a short essay for each of the 81 verses on how to apply these messages of ancient wisdom to everyday modern life.
A book to