A Little Leunig for Every Day
Introducing Little Leunigs! A pack of 24 cards, each one carrying a touching little message from Michael, the kind that arrives quietly, for every day you need it. Not advice, exactly. Just a small, gentle nudge back to yourself, the way a friend might tap you on the shoulder and say, gently, remember this. More like a hand on the shoulder from an old curly-haired friend who has spent a lifetime drawing ducks, angels, and people falling gently off the edge of the world into love.
There is something in the simple ritual of it. Pull one card. Read a few honest lines. Carry them with you into the traffic, the meetings, the washing up. A single card can't fix a whole day, but it can steady it. It can remind you that you are allowed to slow down, that love is not a weakness, that the soul needs looking after just as much as the calendar does.
You start to notice the duck on the pond again. You start to forgive yourself a little more easily. You start to trust that being tender in a hard world is not foolishness… it is, in fact, the wisest thing a person can be. This is the real gift of a daily message: not one big lightning bolt of insight, but two dozen small, faithful returns to what is true. Little course corrections! Little exhales! A pocketful of reminders that keep you pointed toward the person you actually want to be, instead of the person the day was trying to make you.
Each card is small enough to slip into your coat pocket, a lunchbox, a greeting card, your bedside table, or the dashboard of your car. You might give one to a friend who is having a hard time being a human. You might just keep them for yourself, one a day, like a vitamin for the heart. No matter how you use them, let them do their quiet work: a small, steady voice saying: you're doing better than you think, and the world is still worth loving.
We grow by being reminded, gently and often, of what is already right. This is the quiet science behind an old truth: praise a person's courage and they find more of it; notice their tenderness and they offer it more freely.
This is what a daily message of encouragement does for the soul. It is something closer to faith, handed to you in small doses: you are trying, and the trying counts. You are kind, even on the days it doesn't feel like enough. You are becoming, slowly, exactly who you are meant to be. Said once, this might wash over you. Said daily, it begins to take root. This is the real power of positive reinforcement — not as flattery, but as faithful tending. Enough, in time, to help something good grow.
Twenty-four cards. Twenty-four small lights. Twenty-four small duck-shaped truths. Twenty-four ways of coming home to yourself.
Little Leunigs: Available October
- Dilemmas of Existence – 24 Musings about Human Nature
- Festival of Love and Passion – 24 Daydreams about Desire
- Garden in your Pocket – 24 Seeds of Inspiration from Nature
- The Joy of Missing out – 24 Pleasures of the Simple Life
- The Long Curly Road – 24 Ponderances on Travelling
- Love Song for Spring – 24 Reveries about Romantic Love
- Quite Ordinary – 24 Explorations of our Innocent World
- Thoughts and Prayers – 24 Meditations on Inner Peace
