{"id":40822,"date":"2016-04-28T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40822"},"modified":"2016-04-28T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:34:42","slug":"choose-day-paula-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/choose-day-paula-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Days by Paula Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChooseChoose Your Days<\/em> is so many good and meaningful things. But most of all, it’s a gift.<\/p>\n

When Corky is born, Old Bear \u2013bespectacled, wise, never far \u2013 appears by her side. As\u00a0the “keeper of time and keys,” he tells her, “Choose your days, make them sunny or gray.” Echoing his advice, Corky cycles through her life\u00a0\u2013 literally\u00a0\u2013 moving (and maturing) from tricycle to bike, until she’s a bit stooped over, but still whooshing on two wheels. Nearing the end, she asks “for a bit more of time” from Old Bear, “For work undone. For play postponed. For music unsung.” Old Bear reminds her that she “hold[s] the key,” the one he presented her at birth, the one that gave her full agency in how she chose to fill her days. So in the time she has left, Corky continues her adventures until she finally stands before the\u00a0welcome mat that gently reminds, “Do not be afraid” …<\/p>\n

In her “Artist’s Statement” that accompanied the book from spirited Texan indie publisher Cinco Puntos Press<\/a>, creator\u00a0Paula Wallace<\/a> reveals the genesis of her\u00a0simple, powerful book\u00a0\u2013 of how she responded to a friend’s sudden loss through painting, how much that process\u00a0helped her accept\u00a0losing her own Corky, how she\u00a0eventually created\u00a0a 30-piece series “with a narrative of their own.” Visitors responded with their tears\u00a0\u2013 and even more so with their hearts. That her creation\u00a0would become a book was inevitable, first as a limited gallery edition, and now easily accessible and available as a gift for all.<\/p>\n

Don’t let that back label of “Children’s Fiction” fool you … “sunny or gray” is an everyday choice for every one of us. In the time we have left before that “door of wonder” beckons, how will we fill our lists of dreams, which ‘to-do’s will we have checked off? Choose your days \u2013 with curiosity and joy, with caring and understanding, with daring and courage, too.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>:\u00a0All<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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