Episode 69: The Secret Garden Keys to Unlocking Your Imagination with Biographer and Author Angelica Carpenter

Why Listen? In my journal practice, I write down what I call “heart taps”, which are the things that speak directly to my heart. Here are a few of the heart tap moments that I wrote down from this interview with ANGELICA CARPENTER:

****HEART TAPS FROM THIS EPISODE****

• It's up to you to create flowers out of the weeds of your life! Like FHB, we have the ability to use our imagination to see our lives as flourishing garden of possibility and wonder.
• Imagination is the spice of life and needs to be well-tended beyond our youth to be able to flourish.
• Everybody needs a Secret Garden in their life, a place those offers respite and safety from the harshness of life.
• Legacy is the love and joy we put into the world that transcends our time here. It forges connections beyond our wildest hopes and dreams.
• When you find a thing you love, like The Secret Garden, pass it along! Joy is best enjoyed when it's shared.
• And lastly, I'm so grateful to people like Angelica Carpenter whose biography work help preserve the legacy of my great-great grandmother's books as some of the most beloved in the world.

Join me (Keri Wilt) on the Well-Tended Life as I sit down with Angelica Carpenter, a biographer of my great great grandmother Frances Hodgson Burnett, for an enriching conversation. We talk about the legacy of Frances Hodgson Burnett, explore the powerful role of imagination, humor and joy in her work, and discuss Angelica's new children's book. Listen in for heartwarming stories, insights on cultivating imagination, and more!

CHECK OUT HER NEW BOOK: The Secret Gardens of Frances Hodgson Burnett. Secret gardens, hidden gates, flowering passageways. A picture book biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett's winding and captivating life. 

Frances Hodgson Burnett―best known for writing The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and The Little Princess―had a difficult childhood, losing her father when she was very young and moving with her family from England to Tennessee in hopes of a better life.

She’d been making up stories her entire life but didn’t try to write professionally until she was a teenager to help feed her family. Her first submissions to a magazine were published and she eventually became well known all over the world. 

This is Hodgson Burnett’s life story, told in lyrical prose evoking some of the same magic of her own stories.

THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT GIFT FOR ANY CHILD AT HEART THIS CHRISTMAS! And check out the fun letter from me in the back of each copy. 

Angela

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