"The Lost Words," a book of "spells" and illustrations, puts nature in the mind's eye.

For each word, he and Morris wanted to create a “summoning back—a magical procession,” Macfarlane explains. “So you open the first page for acorn, and nothing is there. Acorn is gone. All that the acorn leads to is gone. The oak tree is gone. The forest is gone. There’s just a page of almost absence.”

With that puzzle solved, “you turn the page, and there is acorn, back on gold leaf—a wonderful acorn icon painted by Jackie. And there is a full spell written by me,” Macfarlane said, “to be read aloud by the children, by their parents, anyone.”

https://qz.com/quartzy/1480959/if-you-love-nature-here-are-20-words-to-say-aloud/

Posted on December 19, 2018 11:18 AM by biohexx1 biohexx1

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