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Happy New Year!
If you’re trying to meditate more, we’ve got you covered.
Check out Sue’s Himalayan Nights, a meditation album that will put you to sleep.
She recalls vivid imagery from her childhood growing up in a Himalayan hill station.
It’s a cozy trip down memory lane…
AND a bedtime story for adults & children alike.
Sweet dreams, folks!
-Kabir & Sue
Monthly Bucket – January
📚 Books
- Freedom Soup
By Tami Charles (Illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara)
Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup — Freedom Soup — just like she was taught when she was a little girl.
- Shanté Keys and the New Year’s Peas
By Gail Piernas-Davenport (Illustrated by Marion Eldridge)
Shanté Keys loves the food her family serves on New Year’s Day. Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens and corn bread – but she forgot the black-eyed peas! It will be bad luck without them.
- A Seed Grows
By Antoinette Portis
To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow, a stalk inches out of the earth, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals.
🍦 Extras
- How to make kheer (rice pudding) – Sue’s
secretrecipe includes saffron, rose water, and …
- How to start preparing for Holi
- How to teach kindness – Atlanta educator Stuart Gulley weighs in
- Back to school – Kabir returns to his elementary school & finds a special photo.
📅 Calendar
- January 26 – Republic Day
- March 25 – Holi
- April 13 – Vaisakhi
- August 15 – Independence Day
- August 19 – Raksha Bandhan
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