Prince Siddhartha ..... By candlelight
Maybe you know this version of the life story of Prince Siddhartha, the boy who would become the Buddha, by Jonathan Landlaw. A book which is sumptuously illustrated by Janet Brooke.
What not many people know is that Janet Brooke did every single drawing for this book (there's a full page color picture on every [130-something] page), off the grid, by lamp or candlelight.
In fact, the background story to this impetus into the world is really a love story of the sweetest kind. This book, this illustrator, threads and weaves right back to the San Francisco Bay Area flower children emergence; the dreamers, the Santa Cruz County, Boulder Creek [Om Land], Vajrapani pioneers, Lama Yeshe's "bushy people"; the ones who were seeking diligently for how the human heart could heal the world (the true 'hippies'!).
Never let the precious histories and herstories be lost.
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Wow, awesome. Thank You @Gaman I will be sure to check out the link :) And maybe someone can advise me about how to navigate the ominous, "planetweaver, bandwidth limit exceeded.." ??!! I might have brought it down [upon my head!] on Saturday by setting myself the goal of posting 4 posts in one day, which I did, and it was kind of an organic extension that I ended up also 'curating' a whole bunch, thinking the more the better.. But apparently I must have red-lined, with no clue that I would hit this issue..
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