Author
Sheelagh Mawe was born in Hertfordshire, England
where her passion for horses was equaled only by her
love for reading. Later, as an adult living in
America, she decided to put her own life
experiences, and the theories of various
metaphysical writers, into
story form, using a horse
as her hero. Sheelagh now lives in Orlando, Florida
where, together with two of her three adult
children, she helped found "Totally
Unique Thoughts". She's presently working
on several new books and screenplay adaptations and
can be reached at TUT World Headquarters via adventure@tut.com.
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few words from readers around the world...
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In
my opinion this book is something every child should
read, and every child who didn't read it as a child
should read it as soon as possible. Horse
enthusiasts will love the simple but captivating
story, and I think young and old "girls"
may benefit the most, due to the way our society
seems to limit their value sometimes based on the
physical aspect only, but I wouldn't necessarily
limit it to females. Aspects of adventure,
spirituality, self esteem and inspiration for
getting excited about life in general all wrapped up
in a beautifully told tale that is fun in the
telling and touches your soul.
Baltimore, MD
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I
wanted to thank you personally for the wonderful little gem
of a book . . . DANDELION! Simply took hold of me and
wouldn’t let go until I had read it
through and through…
Ruth White - Newbery Award Winning
Author, Virginia Beach, Virginia
We have both read DANDELION and just loved it. It is such a
wonderfully wise story and there is something amazingly
compelling about information that is presented in story
form. It certainly reinforces all the things we have been
learning in the past year from people such as Wayne Dyer and
Deepak Chopra. I just wish we had known these secrets twenty
years ago! Pam and Rod D. London, England
Your
delightful story, DANDELION, lent much humor and meaning to
this
Sunday afternoon. In addition to being a charming
story, it harbors many
synchronicities for me…
Beverly K., MD, Cupertino,
California
Discovered
Totally Unique Thoughts at Church Street Station in Orlando,
Florida while on vacation a couple of weeks ago. Loved your
words and art and, on a whim, picked up a copy of DANDELION.
Thought I’d read a little before I went to sleep… ended
up staying up until 2:00 am to finish it.
I think it just may have changed my life…
Joani,
Via E-mail
Thank
you so much for DANDELION. I couldn’t put it down! I
especially liked pages 100-101. Like my life for the last
year! Please send me a dozen copies for gifts…
Irene T. LaSalle, Colorado
I
was delighted to read your book DANDELION. I devoured it and
enjoyed it greatly. It was pure pleasure to read – the
lilting Irish speech pattern, the character development, the
scenic descriptions… And how gracefully you introduced
quantum philosophy…
Sarah P. Houston, Texas
I
am a registered nurse working in a psychiatric unit with
adolescent boys and girls. In the evening we have a group
session of one hour, twice a week, to read a book and
discuss it with the kids. Most of the time the discussion is
centered in the third person around values, life experience,
etc. We are now reading your book, DANDELION, and it is
wonderfully therapeutic. Do you have others?
C.W. Cambridge, Maryland
While
visiting Florida earlier this year, I purchased your book,
DANDELION. I had to write and tell you how much I loved it.
If you have written any since DANDELION, please let me know!
Jean Y. Syracuse, New York
I just
read “Dandelion”, by Sheelagh Mawe. It put all the TUT
material in character driven form, made it 3 dimensional,
and I can draw parallels to my own life. Lovely, fulfilling,
what more can you ask for?
A
few words from
Sheelagh...
Dandelion
didn’t come easily into this world! There were times when
I was writing her story that the paper stayed blank all day.
Other times I’d have three legal pads going at once, none
of them making much sense. And I’d quit my real-world job
to do this!
And then,
when her story was written, nobody wanted to publish her. I
mean, nobody. "What is it?" they wanted to
know, "Adult or child? Fact or fiction? What, what,
what?" Thinking, Well, if I’m going to have to
"draw pictures" for them to understand her, just
never mind! And I decided to publish her myself. Only thing
was, I didn’t have any money…
Time
passed. A lot of time. Nine years, in fact. But it wasn’t
wasted time. For in those years my son the CPA, and my son
the ARTIST, and I, the unknown AUTHOR, put our heads
together and started our own company, TUT, which later came
to represent Totally Unique Thoughts. And gradually, as we
grew from selling our T-shirts in the heat and the cold out
of a pushcart on a sidewalk to real stores with a real
warehouse and computers and all that "stuff",
Dandelion came back to haunt me and I thought, Why not?
Let’s get her out of that cardboard box on that dusty
shelf and give her her head, see what happens…
Today,
three years later, Dandelion is a very happy, well traveled
horse. She gets shipped to places I’ve never heard of,
receives her own mail, is in her second printing
and, from what people write me, is actually making a
difference. Good thing I quit that job, huh…?
SM Mawe,
September 1997
Dandelion...
The Extraordinary Life of a Misfit
by
Sheelagh Mawe, Published by Totally Unique Thoughts
Paperback,
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Also
by Sheelagh Mawe,
How
Mom Got a Life!
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The Lonely Little Tree
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