Martina Špinková
Mystery
Cesta domů
Mystery
EDICE BLUDIŠTĚ
© Martina Špinková © Cesta domů 2020 ISBN: 978-80-88126-73-7
Martina Špinková
Mystery
Cesta domů
Do babies dream in their mummy’s tummy?
Who thought us up anyway? Why is it that lobsters can grow a new claw but we can’t grow a new hand?
Where does joy Can God know each and every one of us?
What happens Do ants know where the others are and where they’re going and why?
How can the ocean whisper
Can anyone really tell good from evil? How is it that fish can make perfect circles?
Where does the wind come from?
come from? Some things are just puzzles and we can figure them out. Some things are a mystery. Mysteries aren’t for figuring out. Perhaps we can explore them just a little…
when we die? What’s inside this earth we walk on?
in a sea shell?
Where do we hide our secrets?
In the beginning we’re all hidden away. Mummy has a mystery tucked away inside. She knows some things: for instance, that baby inside isn’t wearing a hat. But she doesn’t know everything. What does baby know about us on the outside? Does she know what we’re doing now? And that we can’t wait to meet her? What’s going on in her mind?
That’s her mystery.
We don’t know.
We’re alive, we have a body and a soul. Maybe that’s why mystery comes to us. A robot is a thing, it’s not alive, even if it looks like it is. It can do lots of things better than us. Can it think at all?
Maybe, but it has no
Perhaps that’s also why it has no mystery?
soul
And then there are so many smaller mysteries… What about these funny little boxes? They’re more about hide and seek than a real mystery. Inside live cockles and mussels, snails, turtles, caterpillars… But how is it that we can hear
the ocean whisper inside a sea shell?
At other times like the evening sun. And for a while the world becomes magical.
mystery casts a spell
Do you have a beautiful mystery? Then don’t open the door unless you have to. Colourful birds might fly in, each steal a little bit and then what would be left?
Nothing.
And if one day time ends, will all
mysteries disappear too?
Text & illustrations Martina Špinková
Mystery Translation from Czech Timothy Young with input from Lorraine Traynor Published by Cesta domů (The Homecoming) in Prague, 2020 1st edition Managing editor Markéta Čábelová Graphic design and typesetting Eliška Kudrnovská, Designiq Print H. R. G. spol. s r. o. © Martina Špinková © Cesta domů 2020 ISBN: 978-80-88126-73-7 www.cestadomu.cz/nakladatelstvi
Tato kniha vychází s podporou Ministerstva kultury České republiky. Děkujeme. This book is published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Mystery. Often we don’t even notice that mysteries are part of our lives. Only when they fly away do we realize that they were here at all.
ISBN 978-80-88126-73-7