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Riddled with obligation, expense, and waste, gifts are often reduced in our consumeristic culture to products for purchase. We all want to give good gifts—but how? In This Is for You, artist and bestselling author Lea Redmond casts a vision for gift-giving as you’ve never seen it before. At their best, she proposes, gift-giving and receiving are an opportunity to practice relational care at every scale for the wellbeing of people and planet.

“Gifts are relationships in miniature,” Redmond writes—a way to honor the spaces between us and practice the best of our humanity. Join us for a talk and interactive gift idea workshop with Lea ahead of this holiday season. 

Lea Redmond seeks the extraordinary hiding in the ordinary and wants to share it with you. She makes things, books, and activities that invite humans of all ages to be curious, playful, and kind. Lea is the author of Knit The Sky, Wonder Hunt, Paint Chip Poetry, and the bestselling Letters To My… series of keepsake journals. As the Postmaster of the World’s Smallest Post Service, she has charmed thousands with her tiny mail transcriptions. Lea gathers people for workshops, letter writing, and other poetic services in her "Tearoom of a Thousand Wonders" in Oakland, California.

Our bookseller for this program is Book Passage Corte Madera. For information about accessibility at the library, please visit https://millvalleylibrary.org/2049/Accessibility