#the unwinding

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✨ The Unwinding and Other Dreamings by Jackie Morris

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Read a story before bed or in times of anxiety. This book of paintings and stories isn’t meant to be read in one sitting. Read each story at a time and take them in.

First off, I want to say how much I love this concept for a book of stories, explicitly saying “do not read this book cover to cover, but when you need it most”.

Secondly, Jackie Morris never ceases to amaze me with her whimsical art, capturing a world I long to part of.

Thirdly, I don’t know if the stories influenced my dreams at all (I wish they did), but they did affect my mental state. Whenever I’d read a story I felt soothed in times of high stress or right before bed. Jackie Morris writes magically and in such a readable, lyrical way. I really love her works.

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Title: The Unwinding | Author: Jackie Morris | Publisher: Unbound (2021)

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

Illustrations from Jackie Morris’s The Unwinding, and its wordless companion volume The Silent Unwinding. 

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The Unwinding by Jackie Morris (public library) “If I said that my love for you was like the spaces between the notes of a wren’s song, would you understand?”

(Thanks to Maria Popova / brainpickings)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Unwinding, writer & artist Jackie Morris

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In the twelfth dreamscape, titled “Truth: The Dreams of Bears,” the enchanting woman whispers into the soft warm ear of the sleeping bear:

If I said that my love for you was like the spaces between the notes of a wren’s song, would you understand? Would you perceive my love to be, therefore, hardly present, almost nothing?

Or would you feel how my love is wrapped around by the richest, the wildest song? And, if I said my love for you is like the time when the nightingale is absent from our twilight world, would you hear it as a silence? Nothing? No love? Or as anticipation of that rich current of music, which fills heart, soul, body, mind?

And, if I said my love for you is like the hare’s breath, would you feel it to be transient? So slight a thing?

Or would you see it as life-giving?

Wild?

A thing that fills the blood, and sets the hare running?

[Thanks to Brainpickings]

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The Unwinding (2013) describing Carver Twin Peaks

[godzilla-reads]

Comfortably making my way through The Unwinding by Jackie Morris, reading it here and there when I need it. In moments of anxiety, dreamings, and content.