The 12 botanical collages that illustrate the storybook Hmmm – M the Humdinger are available as 5’ x 7’ greeting cards. www.harppublishing.ca/books/hmmm Dorothy Lander crafted the botanicals collages and M’s humming companions — hummingbirds, dragonflies, bumblebees, hummingbirds — from pressings of flowers, leaves and evergreens, moss and mycelium. All of Nature’s gifts were gathered from […]
You’re Just My TYPEwriter! – by Kyla Heyming, KPH – For Those I Have Loved (HARP, 2020) https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/for-those-i-have-loved/ My love affair with the typewriter began as most passions do: with a connection, a spark, and an idea. I have been calling myself a writer ever since I was 14. An idea had crept into […]
You can take the girl out of the research lab But you can’t take the research lab out of the girl I am astonished to come to this conclusion so late but the testimonials and reviews coming in for my botanical healing arts book for children of all ages — Hmmm-M the Humdinger — tell […]
The petals of the blue hydrangea were the better side of perfect for crafting the mating damselflies (azure bluet – enalagma aspersum), p. 48 in my just released botanical book Hmmm – M the Humdinger, available in hardcover and online audio Flipbook through the HARP webpage (https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/hmmm/) The mating damselflies hum as together they create […]
John and I have taken to reading aloud Nature writing first thing in the morning. Yesterday, we were so sad when we came to the end of Dara McAnulty’s Diary of a Young Naturalist—we did not want the poetic beauty to end. John has been observing and remembering the times when he has cried, even […]
Animal Medicine: Advance Praise for Hmmm! M the Humdinger The dream of every publisher, writer, and artist—an unsolicited endorsement. Advance praise for Dorothy Lander’s musical botanical picture book, Hmmm! M the Humdinger, published by the healing arts publisher HARP The People’s Press, came from an unsolicited, unbiased, and unrestrained authority—the more-than-human Kiisa of Seattle, Washington […]
This year we stopped mowing our lawn, to re-wild our surroundings and welcome our essential pollinators. We have been reminded of their presence and their absence throughout the summer of 2020. John composed an article on The Therapeutic Power of Gardening, which appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of Connections from St. James United Church […]
Hmmm – M the Humdinger is an interactive story for all ages about , a child of Nature. It unfolds as M’s humming paean to the connection between all living creatures, human and more-than-human. M’s hum-lines trace the arc of unity with Nature and with people who are different, underscored […]
HARP The People’s Press: Getting into Good Trouble Civil rights leader John Lewis urged us to “get into good trouble, necessary trouble.” So HARP The People’s Press must trouble Shands Hospital’s recent attempt at damage control. We’re referring to their response to our identifying multiple errors in the August issue of News-Notes that celebrated the […]
HARP The People’s Press is a healing arts publishing house that flies under the banner: A healthy community knows its history Many of HARP’s publications and postings on social media speak truth to history as its signature healing practice. As co-publishers of HARP, Dorothy Lander and John Graham-Pole were dismayed to find themselves having to […]
