![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Selected and retold by the American author Eleanore Myers Jewett, Wonder Tales from Tibet ( public library | public domain) appeared in 1922, collecting “tales of wonder and magic” that had traveled orally from India to Tibet centuries earlier, then continued their migration to become “as familiar to Kalmuck and Mongolian children as St. Art from the story “Six Friends.” (Available as a print.) In the final year of his twenties, two decades before he created the beloved Bambi character for Disney, the artist and naturalist Maurice “Jake” Day (July 2, 1892–May 17, 1983) lent his time and talent to an unusual project - illustrating a collection of Tibetan magic tales, resinous with ancient wisdom on the most elemental aspects of living: the meaning of wisdom, the measure of kindness, the yearning for transformation, the cost of cruelty and arrogance, how to love and how to live with our human fallibility. Of the them, the third is both the most elusive and the most readily available in the daily landscape of life, if only we know how to look. We spend our lives yearning for three things above all else: love, meaning, and magic - all else is a compound of these building blocks. ![]()
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