Sandra Bruna’s team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a 2022 filled with happiness, health, and books, and that we can share it all.
We will take a break the week from the 3rd to the 9th of January to come back recharged and ready to start a new year, which we hope will be better.
This week, and with Christmas very near, I love to recommend a family book. Álex Rovira and Francesc Miralles publish their third book of the Tales collection with Destino. After the success with TALES TO LOVE YOURSELF BETTER with 8 editions in Spanish and 5 in Catalan and sold to Rumania, Italy and Poland, and TALES FOR HAPPY BOYS AND GIRLS with 2 editions and going up, they publish TALES TO HAVE COURAGE, with 35 tales to help you empower yourself and overcome adversities. Who teaches us how to deal with life?
Both the children and adults have in our hands a great power, and with great power comes a great responsibility, like the superheroes, to shape our life and the new world that waits for us is necessary to wake up the courage that comes from self-knowledge of one’s strengths. Because of this, this anthology works the resilience, the art of sailing through the difficulties, the creative thinking and the of cultivation nutritive relationships, among a lot of other subjects that will help us have more courage.
Through this tales the parents can learn how to pass on these tools to our kids because what we want is that they are happy, yes, but we also want them not to suffer and that they know how to defend themselves in front of difficulties, without fear, face the situations with judgement and resilience. Many adults still do not know how to do it depending on the situations, because when they were children, nobody taught them how to do it.
I believe that between the three books, this one has an especial power because we know that there will be problems in life, but having the tranquility to have the weapons to fix problems has an incalculable value, and I am sure, that pass on this legacy to our children is something that all parents, grandparents, uncles, and godparents want for the little ones, and by the way, reflect on it as adults.
This book is a useful gift for this life, that after the pandemic it looks like everything is starting to go back to normality, not the normality that we had and that maybe will never come back, so we will have to adapt to this new reality, and we need tools like courage to do so.
Another year has passed, the month of December, Christmas, and our solidarity campaign LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA is back for the eight consecutive year. There have been years where I have been tempted to throw in the towel, not because of a lack of interest, but because it is not easy to ask people to solidary. Also, we must understand that it is not anyone’s duty to be solidary, and chase after people to collaborate is an arduous work that needs its time, a very valuable thing, at least in my life, and which every time I manage it worse, because I would need my day to be not only 48 hours, but 72. Life does not stop, work either, and this solidary challenge is greater every time.
It is true that every year we put bar higher to be able to help more kids, this year we want to achieve 1,500 meals, that for a lot of kids will be the only hot meal of the day, but to accomplish this, we must earn 4,500 euros. Last year it was difficult to reach 3,000 euros, but we made it, with a lot of tenacity, but it was not easy, since like what I said, solidarity must not be and obligation, it must be a feeling. Because of this, one of the reasons of this campaign was to demonstrate that the editorial world not only receives, but it also gives. It looks like we are known to just ask, to always complain, and my idea was to show the world that it is not true, because culture has always been solidary in one way or another. LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA intends to be another way to show the solidary face of the cultural world and to firmly believe that life is giving and receiving, which I have always believed and have tried to apply in all the aspects in my life. Never have I thought of giving only for the porpoise of receiving something in return, but I do believe that the universe takes care of making the path bidirectional for those who deserve it.
I am not ashamed to share with us that I am one of those who believe in the universe, in the stars and the magic of Christmas, and it is because of this that I ask you to look inside you and if you also feel it, you help us achieve this solidary challenge another year, and that any children is left without a hot meal a day, since it is already sad that there are kids that can only count on this. The link for helping us is this: https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/la-literatura-alimenta-1-500-comidas-para-el-programa-becas-comedor-de-educo#.Yayban_BO_E.link . The deadline is the 30th of January of 2022, so do not think too hard, click o the link, enter and contribute the amount that you want. The important thing is being able to do something for others. We all spend money in things that we do not need, do not avoid this and let’s do an investment in helping families that can not give their children what should be the minimum.
I want to thank the authors of the agency that have3 helped us make a little gift for those who collaborate in this year’s campaign. 12 videos with 12 advices to have a great 2022. From the non-fiction authors, who with their books can help us be better, Anna, Solyom, Álex Rovira, Cristina Benito, Dr. Eduard Estivill, Ferran Cases, Francesc Miralles, Gabriel García de Oro, Gaspar Hernández, Meritxell García, Nacho Mülhenberg, Sara Teller, Sonia Rico y Tony Estruch, you will have 12 very simple advice that will for sure give you the guideline to live better, happier, and fuller. THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANK YOU for your solidarity.
I have never had trouble connecting with people, on the contrary. I have always liked people, and as years go by, I realise that even if you like people, there are different frequencies between us and not all of us vibrate at the same time. Nevertheless, I have always tried to put myself in the place of the other people, in life but also in my job, in which I think it is fundamental to always know how to be in the other people’s shoes.
This book of Meritxell García shows us this: the importance of teaching the little ones empathy. We will meet Mimi, who has holed socks and her mother accompanies her to buy new ones. She picks ones with centipede drawings but what Mimi does not know is that they are magical and will allow her to put herself in her beloved ones’ shoes thanks to the children’s game of putting other people’s shoes on. What will Mimi discover about the feelings of the others around her and, even her own, thanks to the magic socks? A simple way to be able to feel what others feel in the same situation. How I wish I had those socks!!!
Empathy is the invisible thread that connects us as people, it is seeing the world with other people’s eyes. It is a value that you can teach, pass on, and therefore as parents we should try to instil our children empathy early on, like we teach them how to eat or sleep, because life with empathy will always be easier since it is a two-way path. The one who is empathic feels lucky to know how to see what others do not, and the one to receive empathy because there is someone who tries to understand them. I am sure this way we would grow up in a world a little bit better. So, I encourage everyone to read this book with the little ones at home. An ideal present for this Christmas, so that all of us can be a little bit more empathic this 2022.
This week there has been a full moon. The Moon has always been magical for me, and I could spend hours watching the sky decorated with stars and dominated by the Moon that goes from waxing crescent to waning crescent depending on the day, like us, that sometimes we feel smaller and other times bigger. Stages, phases. The lunar magic is as old as humanity. Since women looked up to the sky and comprehended that her cycles were equate to those of the Moon and saw the power and the creator capacity that had at hand.
Keyla Missen, after taking our hearts with The modern magic manual, translated to two languages (Portuguese and Polish), comes back with this clear, simple, and practical guide to get started in this lunar magic with effective rituals that will help in our personal development: meditations to invoke a favor of our celestial sister, moon baths that regenerate us physical, mental, and spiritually. We will discover how to use the lunar gems which are catalysts par excellence. Powers from the nature that can play in our favor in a lot of occasions if we know how.
The Moon is magical and when we learn to channel its energy, we are nearer ourselves, without categorizing or putting labels upon us, we are closer to our dreams, of what we long for, which we always see unattainable, like the moon, but maybe the important thing is not whether we are near or far of something but comprehend that we can get there using its power. The knowledge does not occupy space so this guide can only help us get better.
