Reverence as Responsibility

What is your mission?

A Song and Dance for Mother Earth

I used to think gratitude was something you felt quietly.

Something you said thank you for.

Something that stayed inside.

Then I watched how children love the world.

They sing to it.

They talk to it.

They pick up stones and leaves as if they matter.

They dance without needing permission.

A Song and Dance for Mother Earth began with that noticing.

This book invites children into a relationship with the planet that is joyful before it is careful. It doesn’t begin with warnings or rules. It begins with wonder—with the idea that the Earth is not just a place we live on, but something we are in conversation with.

Here, reverence is not abstract. It is practiced through small acts: noticing a tree, listening to birds, caring for what is fragile, returning what is borrowed. The story teaches that love for the world is something you do, not just something you feel.

For children, this book offers a simple truth: when you love something, you take care of it. When you belong somewhere, you act with kindness toward it.

For adults reading alongside them, it quietly reframes responsibility. It suggests that environmental care does not have to begin in fear or guilt—it can begin in affection, rhythm, and respect.

My mission with this story is to reunite spirituality with stewardship. To show that honoring the Earth is not separate from everyday life, but woven into how we walk, play, sing, and choose.

This book does not lecture.

It listens—to the wind, the soil, the small hands reaching out to touch the world.

And it invites readers, young and old, to respond in the only way that makes sense:

With care.

With joy.

With responsibility that feels like love.