An intimate party with his animal friends is interrupted when a little boy looks up and sees a feather float into the room through an open window and fluttering curtain. He wonders, "Does a feather remember it once was a bird? Does a book remember it once was a word?" These are spiritual questions which mystics down through the ages have probed.
Even objects are caught up in the cycles of change and energy. "Does a chair remember it once was a tree?" "Does a garden remember it once was a pea?" "Does an ocean remember it once was rain?"
There are no opposites in this realm of flow. "Does work remember it once was play? Does night remember it once was day?" "Does love remember it once was new?"
Although some parents might find this exquisitely illustrated book too adult, it is important to realize that children are much more spiritual than we think they are.
Nina Laden has fashioned a questing resource that is both mystical and soulful with its profound questions. The best one is saved for last: "Will you remember you once were a child?"
