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I was going to write about all the awful things going on in the world these days, but then a chance encounter in a frozen yogurt shop today changed that.
It was hot this afternoon, so I took my little one to a frozen yogurt place we know. As we sat down, two other moms from her school walked in with their children—my daughter's friends. Thrilled, the children sat together while we moms pulled up a little table alongside and chatted about all the adult stuff we'd have considered boring were we our kids' age.
Then I turned my head.
Standing at the frozen yogurt machine was a lady whose face I knew I knew...from somewhere. She smiled at me and said hi, and my brain immediately assumed she was also one of the moms from school—possibly one of the newer families?
I was somewhat right. She re-introduced herself. She had indeed been at our school, but she was also one of the mothers whose children had participated in one of my Cacao Quest workshops last summer. The light finally went on.
"Ohhh yes!" I exclaimed, and we chatted about that a bit. She shared with me that her son still remembered the material we had covered in the workshop, despite the volume of information I had brought to the kids. She added that he reads the labels and leverages his cacao knowledge to convince her to buy more chocolate for him.
"Well, it is good for you," I said, and we laughed.
This one brief serendipitous moment fused all of my effort, all of the time and energy, all of the preparation, travel and logistics I had spent creating and carrying out these workshops for kids throughout the Bay Area, into one powerful droplet of gratitude. A droplet that fuels a writer's very soul.
This is why we write. This is why we take our books out to the world. Quite literally.
There is nothing more sacred than connecting a young mind to a world you've had the honor of bringing to life.
The curious thing is that June's Musing of the Moment would have been very different if I'd gotten the issue out on time.
Funny how life works.
~ Birgitte
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It has been some time since I shared with you news from our publishing front. Being a nano press, as I call our little operation, means you're not putting out hundreds of titles on an annual basis. Besides, we're not exactly a traditional publishing house——there's so much more we do with our content than books, and that takes a precious lot of time and energy.
This time the mystery manuscript doesn't refer to one of mine. We've got two in the oven actually—two very different books, yet both have the potential to change the way we perceive our world, and our lives.
Right now both works are in editing—a wonderful process that is at once exacting and creative, time- and labor-intensive. The goal is to have both books out by the end of the summer, so watch this publishing space!
Above all, enjoy your summer. Read a lot. Take the time to think. Go on long walks, eat good food, and spend your best moments with friends and loved ones. Never ever procrastinate on any of that.
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