Trina Paulus
Trina Paulus is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of her best selling parable Hope for the Flowers. In 1972 it won the Christopher Award for the most inspiring book of the year. It has sold over 4 million copies in English and millions of other copies translated in many languages. Hope For The Flowers is a book written "for adults and others (including caterpillars who can read). The main characters, Yellow and Stripe, have been crossing all types of boundaries for half a century. 🦋
Trina describes herself as an "advocate of organic farming, composting, holistic health and spiritual search." Paulus lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Her lifelong activism for peace and justice is deeply rooted in her faith. Trina was born and raised in Ohio by parents who “never spoke a bad word about anyone or group of people. The world should be more like that,” she says.
“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked."You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
“"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?""It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.”
“Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.”
“We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough.”
“How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”