Postcard from the Sea Library: You Need a Light to Read a Book
“When I read, I am home. Same feeling, when I arrive at an empty beach, throw my bike in the sand and am there. With the sea.”
Surfing the Waves of Emotions in Jaimal Yogis’ Book for Kids and Parents
“Just breathe and let those waves pass. Like the ocean, your mind is always changing,” says mum to her boy in a wise and beautiful book written by Jaimal Yogis and illustrated by Matthew Allen.
How Juli Berwald Found Her Purpose of Professional Life in Jellyfish
“Looking back, I see that jellyfish came to me at a unique moment in my life,” writes Juli Berwald in her book “Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone”.
A Woven Blanket Inspired by Sarah Moss’s “Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland”
For the shelves in the Sea Library to be filled with new books, I’ve learned to weave on a large wooden frame, my loom. The second dreaming blanket is inspired by a book on Iceland.
Julia Baird on Phosphorescence as a Metaphor for Inner Light
Julia Baird chooses phosphorescence as a perfect metaphor for “flashes of life in the middle of the dark, or joy in difficult times.”
Beautiful Quotes About the Sea from Books in the Sea Library
Virginia Woolf, Anton Chekhov, Rachel Carson, Herman Melville, Iris Murdoch, Oscar Wilde, Mary Oliver, Tim Winton, Albert Camus, Chloe Aridjis and other writers about the sea.
Postcard from the Sea Library: Reindeer Antlers and Baltic Ancestors
“When I waded out in the lake on the evening of my birthday I tried to imagine my ancestors living by this same lake thousands of years ago.”
A Story About a Boy Whose Dad is a Coal Miner Deep Down Under the Sea
In a book for kids “Town is by the Sea”, written by Joanne Schwartz and illustrated by Sydney Smith, a boy awaits for his dad to return from a dark coal mine deep under the sea.
A Woven Blanket Inspired by Kevin Barry’s “Night Boat to Tangier”
For the shelves in the Sea Library to be filled with new books, I’ve learned to weave. “Dreaming blankets” are made out of wool and their colours are inspired by books in the library.
Godrevy Lighthouse in Cornwall in a Poem by Jennifer Edgecombe
Godrevy Lighthouse was built in 1859 on Godrevy Island in St Ives Bay, Cornwall. It inspired Virginia Woolf nearly one hundred years ago and appears in Jennifer Edgecombe’s poem today.
