Lafayette Wattles

Poet, Middle Grade & Young Adult Novelist, Photographer, Incurably-Curious-Hoops-Junkie, Semi-Bendy Yoga Dude, Wannabe Ninja, Misfit

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

“ . . . it is only Kindness that makes sense anymore . . .
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.” - Naomi Shihab Nye
#poet #poetry #Kindness

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

@WillaVogel Brett rocks!

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Awesome bird #sculptures by Todd McGrain:
https://t.co/uSHVRSU2oa

#art #sculpture

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

How we see things . . .

[zandraart @zandraartt]

disconnect

[Pascal Campion @pascalcampion]

ASMR

I was listening to some rain ASMR. Made me want to paint this.

Based on a pic .

#pascalcampion

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

Excited to be part of the new picture book The Legend of the Gathers: Protectors of the Light with wonderful artist
@bridedesign
#illustration #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook #artist #illustrator #pugs #lightbulb #history #Supernatural

https://t.co/O458Mid8gw

[zandraart @zandraartt]

night cabin

[jane newland @janenewland]

Happy Christmas! 😘 🎅🎈🎁✨
#HAPPYCHRISTMAS #TakeCare #StaySafe #StayHome

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

That time you started the (hopefully) final #revision for the new chapter book . . . #kidlit #amwriting #writerslife

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

So stoked about this. Awesome writer and friend is at it again . . . WooHoo!

[Kelly Creagh @Kelly_Creagh]

The breathtaking cover for Phantom Heart (August 2021/Viking), my YA retelling of Gaston Leroux’s classic, The Phantom of the Opera. Thank you to Jessica Jenkins for this absolutely STUNNING design.

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

Work on chapter book . . . fun . . . word by word . . . #amwriting #kidlit

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

Give yourself permission to listen to your soul . . . to do the things you love, to be the person you want to be . . .

https://t.co/NXXuMCt2DC

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.” - Sophia Bush

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

#compassion is a verb.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

A chat with talented @jesssica__evans on writing as a way home . . . https://t.co/iQ9lZyWweB

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

“Not one of us knows what we can do, until one fine day, we stand up and do it.” - H.P. Wood #amwriting #yalit #kidlit

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

“We define each moment by what we choose to care about.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

“Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love but is perhaps greater than love. #Kindness is good will. Kindness says I want you to be happy.” - Randolph Ray

[Lafayette Wattles @LWattles]

“Life is made up of marble and mud.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne