Authors Speak: The Gathering Table
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. ~ Walt Disney This Succeed and Soar series invites writers to answer questions about their artforms and special inspirations. Welcome Antwan Eady Antwan, what phrase inspires your writing and life? Start where you are. – Antwan Eady Antwan, share how these words helped your writing, your life. Start where you are. I say this often because it’s true. Sometimes you simply must start where you are. As a writer, I stood in my own way for so many years. A decade really. I wrote my first picture book in 2007. I started a novel in 2011. I wrote poetry all my life but stopped in 2011 or 2012. I was waiting for the “perfect” environment. The “perfect” desk. A new laptop. Etc. But, one day, instead of focusing on what I didn’t have or what I didn’t know, I got started. Without a writer’s desk. On an ancient laptop that was given to me (one that couldn’t hold a charge and had to be plugged in to work). I…got started. So, young dreamers, start where you are. The Gathering Table, Sample Text The air, it cools. The leaves, they change.We gather around the table where Grandpa and Grandma are honored for the family they’ve built.Spanish moss, long and gray, drapes from above. Grandpa’s beard, long and gray, drapes from below. Kirkus Review: Sumptuous and immersive—perfect for encouraging kids to celebrate their own family connections. Read more. Purchase Antwan’s Books Beautiful and inspiring Succeed & Soar art can be purchased as posters, framed, metal and canvas. Art also available as puzzles, totes, blankets, mugs, greeting cards, notebooks, phone cases, pillows, towels, clothing and more. Shop All Art HERE. Collections change. Visit often.
Special Short: Adults Only Disney Moments
Consider The creative adult is the child who has survived. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin Each month, Succeed and Soar shares a short video chosen to lift the heart and spirit, awareness and humanity. This select video [below] presents surprising adult themes slipped into Disney children’s films. In preparation, here are reflections on adulthood, The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.~ Alden Nowlan A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.~ Thomas Szasz We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’~ Sydney J. Harris Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.~ Walt Disney Succeed and Soar! Sandra Gould FordPresenting art to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thing and inspire. Comment Click Here to View. 10 Disney Moments Only Adults Will Understand7 Minutes Fine Art America Buy beautiful and inspiring prints, framed, canvas. Also fleece blankets, journals, greeting cards, clothing, totes, phone cases, towels, bedding and much more. This week, consider mugs with Succeed and Soar art and themes. Details: See All Mugs Shop All Collections HERE. Thanks for your support!
2024 Beyond the Sky’s Limits 1, Dreams
The best way to predict the future is to create it. — credited to Abraham Lincoln * For decades, I’ve collected uplifting, motivating quotes. In 2019, Succeed and Soar allowed me to share them, illustrated with evocative images. The theme for the first of this “Beyond the Sky’s Limits” series is Dreams. As a Disney commercial sings, “A dream is a wish your heart makes.” Many believe our hearts can be our best guides. Photographs from my “SkyScapes Gallery” accompany this series. Here are quotes about dreams I’ve cherished for years, * Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. — James Allen All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. — T. E. Lawrence Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. — Walt Disney The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Succeed and Soar! COMMENT. SkyScapes Journals Record your dreams, hopes, plans and achievements in these beautiful, inspiring notebooks. Details: 6” x 8, spiral notebook 120 pages, ruled on both sides Art printed on front Cover is thick paper stock. Back cover is medium gray Inside front and back covers have pockets for storing extra paper and pens View All Notebooks Thanks for shopping!