The Celestials

Love is unimaginably beautiful, with the power to shake mountains and create fountains. If you are lucky, then love is written for you in the stars. For lovers can be joined through time and space, across aeons, their souls connected by tenuous but resonant chords, their cores made from the same stardust. Their essences can be polar opposites, magnetic, and destined to collide. But this series of stories follows the journey across time and space of two souls, two lovers destined to meet in different lifetimes, in different bodies, but always drawn to each other by their inner compass guiding them true across the centuries.

Spider Versus Monkey

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, Viv and Vish embark on an adventurous journey of whimsical humor. Like the flow of their river, there are a few surprise twists and turns as they immerse everyone’s attention in their quirky interactions and sparring.

Will sly Vish succeed in his endeavors against Viv, or will he find himself in a sticky situation? Who knows! Make no mistake, Jaguar and the other forest denizens are hilariously entertained as they bear witness to a swift payback. The question is, “Who is on whose side?!” Prepare to be amused and educated too!

True to the author’s style, the story is followed by an engaging activity section. It is designed with an age-appropriate educational focus, drawing on the author’s extensive experience in education. In this instance, the spotlight is on the letter “V” to help young readers explore and expand their understanding of words in a playful way.

The fast-paced plot of the story plus the engaging activities will make it difficult for you or your youngster to put this book down once you start reading.

A Bird Who Cannot Fly

A story for young hearts that need love and acceptance, just as they are.

With a critical mom and an apathetic dad, Jiho, to whom home is not a place for comfort, one day meets a bird who can speak. The bird guides Jiho to a beautiful village where they encounter a landlord with a tiny garden and a family along the seashore.

What does the bird want to tell Jiho?

In the Modern Tower of Babel

In the original fable of the Tower of Babel, as punishment for attempting to build a tower into the heavens, the people were relegated to an inability to communicate, each speaking a different language. Hence the term “to Babel.”

The Modern Tower of Babel refers not to multiple languages but to the increasing spread of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. We are increasingly disadvantaged in our ability to establish fact from fiction and truth from lies. This confusion is leading to the chaos we now see across many aspects of society: In medicine, should we vaccinate our children or not? In the health of our environment, are global warming and climate change a reality, or are they a hoax? And, of course, in politics, where anything seems permissible and truth is often discarded in favor of retaining power.

But all is not lost. If we are smart enough to use modern technologies; such as AI; intelligently and with proper regulation, we can harness the wealth of information available to us and leverage modern tools to distinguish fact from fiction and rigorously evaluate evidence. But that will only happen if we use AI properly, and given our current course, that outcome is far from assured.

The Clock and the Garden

Why are some people organized, meticulous, and rigid in their everyday lives? While other people focus on the beauty in everything, including plants, animals, gardens, and a field of wildflowers. These personalities usually collide. This story is about a conversation between two such personalities—a structured grandfather clock and a free-spirited flower garden. Through their conversation, they discover the value of both order and spontaneity—reason and emotion. Ultimately, the story conveys that “we should use our heads to guide us but never forget to follow our hearts.”