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THE UNWINDING CARDS
A collection of 100 postcards, taken from Jackie Morris’s enchanting collection, The Unwinding and Other Dreamings which was longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2019. The front of each postcard features a painting from the book, or a story, with a spell, quote or charm on the back. Including new words and paintings, these cards can be used to spread beauty and peace among the people you love and care about.
POSTCARDS ARE CURIOUS OBJECTS. THEIR LIVES CAN BE LONG OR SHORT AND THEIR BREVITY IS A PART OF THEIR CHARM
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She stole the colour from the land, the brighter for his coat to glow
Rest, safe in the arms of the one who loves. Dream, while the moth flies
She whispered into the ear of the dreaming bear. If I said that my love for you was like the spaces between the notes of a wren’s song, would you understand?
Would you perceive my love to be, therefore, hardly present, almost nothing?
Or would you feel how my love is wrapped around by the richest, the wildest song? And, if I said my love for you is like the time when the nightingale is absent from our twilight world, would you hear it as silence? Nothing? No love? Or as anticipation of that rich current of music, which fills heart, soul, body, mind?
And, if I said my love for you is like the hare’s breath, would you feel it to be transient? So slight a thing? Or would you see it as life-giving? Wild?
A thing that fills the blood, and sets the hare running?
Truth: The Dreams of Bears
Owls kept watch over the calm sea
S N O W M O O N ide by side beneath the full moon orthward they moved ver the skin of snow here the white bear walked, ade music as their feet touched n the crisp, frozen surface n the skin of the ice, otes crystal clear in the sharpness of cold.
Badger loved his red teapot
Find The Unwinding Cards on page 73