Publisher's Synopsis
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
"The poems within Morning Leaves are tender, compassionate and full of wonder. Laing's writing and Kelly's illustrations are conduits for healing and hope."-Kristin A. Meekhof, co-author of A Widow's Guide to Healing
"Morning Leaves is a gift to all who open their eyes to its images and their hearts to its whispers and exhortations."-Faith Salie, Emmy-winning contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning and author of Approval Junkie
A radiant fusion of poetry and nature art, Morning Leaves: Cultivating a Life of Beauty, Meaning, and Joy is a tender, soul-stirring meditation on grief, healing, and the quiet joy of rediscovering beauty one morning at a time.
Steeped in beautiful art and verse that invites reflection, Morning Leaves is the perfect gift book or self-purchase.
Morning Leaves is an invitation to dream of a life where you are moving away from whatever has stopped you. It might be a death, trauma, loss of a relationship, some wild dark night of the soul is upon you and you enter this book, these poems and Kelly Leahy Radding's magnificent nature art.
You enter the possibility: Walk it. Talk it. Write it. Create it. Keep moving forward. Find your joy. Find your blessing. Find who you are going to be in your wild and precious life - one butterfly flight, one mourning dove wing, one frog leap at a time. This is a book that invites a journey into wholeness through creativity and conversation and writing and movement.
Healing isn't static. It's energetic! I am here to take your hand. Morning Leaves is a love letter to the growing soul who wants to move on to the next place and find joy.
AWARD WINS FOR MORNING LEAVES:
2023 FOREWORD INDIES AWARDS WINNER
2023 PUBWEST DESIGN AWARDS WINNER
2024 FEATHERED QUILL BOOK AWARDS WINNER | GOLD
2024 IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARDS WINNER | GOLD
MORE PRAISE FOR MORNING LEAVES:
"The poems within Morning Leaves are tender, compassionate and full of wonder. Laing's writing and Kelly's illustrations are conduits for healing and hope."-Kristin A. Meekhof, co-author of A Widow's Guide to Healing
"So beautifully written and thoughtfully constructed. Visceral. Visual. Vulnerable. The passages cracked open my heart."-Amy K. Hutchens, award-winning speaker and bestselling author of Get It and The Secrets Leaders Keep
