Gold Mine Consign Associate Joanne Cox recommends The Boy Who Spoke To The Earth by Chris Burkard and David McCleellan.
The Boy Who Spoke To The Earth is about a young child who is searching and seeking happiness. He is trying to find meaning to his life by complaining to the Earth about what he doesn’t have.
He doesn’t have riches. He doesn’t have what other children, his own age, have. And he believes that because he can’t hold on to what the Earth has to offer, then it doesn’t exist.
No matter where he goes or what he does, he is never happy. Even though both beauty and life are all around him.
The Earth is trying to explain to the child that happiness is everywhere.
It is in the waves of the ocean.
It’s in the landscape of a mountain range that goes on forever.
It is in the desert where the sun disappears into the heavens.
It’s even in your backyard.
Because beauty and grace is all around us.
All you have to do is look around. And be marveled at what is in front of us.
It’s even inside ourselves.
