Simplicity

In life, it is the simplest lessons that we tend to take for granted - presumably because we think we’ve outgrown the phase for such simple teachings. Yet, like beauty, simplicity is difficult. The more we move on, the more we are overwhelmed by a whole array of thoughts and philosophies, only to find that at the base of the labyrinth are lessons so simple we have learnt but forgotten, or if we missed them out in an earlier stage of life, lessons that could have just been understood with a story. This is what draws me to children literature – to uncover my own simplicity, and to befriend the angels that come and go. Like my bear Alfred, I’m going to make the world a place of aura, and seek solace in that new home made for myself, and my kids.