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A Way to Be

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Fall Reflections

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My beauty and my book. Seeing my daughter with my debut #picturebook reminded me of where the idea for it came from. My inner child is where I found the inspiration for IF SUN COULD SPEAK, my debut picture book illustrated by Saki Tanaka. I was enrolled in a course with Children’s Book Academy, directed by Mira Reisberg. We were reviewing ways to think of enticing book topics, and she said to think of a problem or question you had as a child. That piqued my interest, so I set the intention to recall a childhood memory that would make a great story. It was the next day that a memory from my childhood popped up. I think I was about five or six when I first discovered that the sun doesn’t actually rise and set. I had assumed that the sun was moving up and down in the sky, because the word RISE means to move upward. That was the definition that my five year old self understood, and five year old brains are very literal. It totally blew my mind that it was the earth’s movement that created sunrises and sunsets. And I felt mad that I was mislead to believe inaccurate information. I was frustrated whenever I heard people say anything about the sun RISING. That’s where the concept of a book told from the sun’s perspective began, to clear up any misunderstandings about the sun. I took my childhood feelings and transferred them to the main character, Sun. Sun would be a feisty character, wanting to teach people the truth. I pictured Sun saying things like, “How dare they think I rise. I do not rise.” The title to my first draft was I DO NOT RISE. The main character, evolving through many revisions, kept a slightly egotistical trait. It happens when the world revolves around you. Sun had two goals when talking to readers: One is to share information about who Sun is and what Sun does. And the second is to inspire readers to wonder and search for discoveries. #kidlitauthor @sakitales3 #kidlit #kidlitart

So strange and fascinating!One of the kids found this dandelion showing fasciation: relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip), which normally is concentrated around a single point and produces approximately cylindrical tissue, instead becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested (or "cristate"), or elaborately contorted, tissue. #flowerpower #dandelion #dandelions #notaweed #beesfirstfood #natureisamazing #homeschool #homeschooling #homeschoollife #getoutside #natureschool #natureschooling #outdoorclassroom

I suddenly had the feeling I was being watched. I spy a small black cat. 😺 #caturday #catlife #catsofinstagram #officeview #kidlitauthor

The moments when we fade into the present are the most divine. All that has lead to now and all that is waiting for us, releases their grip Freeing us to this pinpoint in time, open to connect to the source of it all. These are the moments where I forget he’s sick. He forgets his hurting bones. Instead of the role of nurse, doctor, therapist, or first responder, In these moments, I get to be mother. I show you how to unfold your fingers to offer the horse the yellow flower. Instead of patient, you get to be child. The knowing horse, with her head bowed to your level accepts your gifts. Mother, child, horse, flower. This is all I want for us. #motherhood #raredisease #horselover #beherenow #todayisallwehave #presentmoment

Working with one hand today. ❤️#rohhadawareness #raredisease #tomorrowisntpromised #motherhood #kidlitauthor

Do you see the face?! We can’t unsee it. It’s looking right inside our house. I didn’t notice it when we put up the birdhouses. I’m feeling bad about sticking a house his cheek. 🌳 #trees #treesofinstagram #treeface #oldmantree #kidlitauthor

Kourtney LaFavre

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