Maybe you know this version of the life story of Prince Siddhartha, the boy who would become the Buddha, by Jonathan Landlaw. A book which is sumptuously illustrated by Janet Brooke.
What not many people know is that Janet Brooke did every single drawing for this book (there's a full page color picture on every [130-something] page), off the grid, by lamp or candlelight.
In fact, the background story to this impetus into the world is really a love story of the sweetest kind. This book, this illustrator, threads and weaves right back to the San Francisco Bay Area flower children emergence; the dreamers, the Santa Cruz County, Boulder Creek [Om Land], Vajrapani pioneers, Lama Yeshe's "bushy people"; the ones who were seeking diligently for how the human heart could heal the world (the true 'hippies'!).
Never let the precious histories and herstories be lost.
