my Oakee Doakee children’s books series is now available on Lulu! 😃📚📖
click here👉🏼 siredword.com
(if you speak German, you can download the Oki Doki audiobook for free here: https://tinyurl.com/5274e4a7 ☺️)


my Oakee Doakee children’s books series is now available on Lulu! 😃📚📖
click here👉🏼 siredword.com
(if you speak German, you can download the Oki Doki audiobook for free here: https://tinyurl.com/5274e4a7 ☺️)


Posted in 2026, 21st century trend, adventure, art, benevolence, books, courage, creativity, enlightenment, fun, gadzooks!, hope, inner freedom, inspiration, Kundalini, life, Mount Kailash, Oakee Doakee, Sahaja Yoga Meditation, Sir Ed Word, smile, thoughtless awareness, well-being, wonder, writing
Tagged adventure novel, children's books, enlightenment, Oakee Doakee, Sir Ed Word
We strolled through and enjoyed almost countless examples of ART SET TO THE PAGE, including many books created ENTIRELY BY HAND — really something to behold in this age of robots and AI.

In the main hall we met dynamic creators, eager to share their unique products. Among them were Mitsuki Nakamura — from Japan, based for over two years in Western Germany — who writes, illustrates and binds amazing books for children! (Instagram: minyazou_ )


And we met Lisa Reiter ( https://lisareiter.com/ ) a student of Vienna’s University of Applied Arts (where my wife graduated in the 1989). We bought a creative book that includes several pages with added samples of the materials described in the short narratives, and semi-transparent printed pages that pull you through to the subject behind! (She created it along with Flores Paul, Laura Josic, Lena Heinschink, Michelle Schäfer, Chiara Mizaikoff, David Carol Fedders, Arina Nekliudova, Yevheniia Pavlova, Marie Filippovits, Tutku Kocabaş, Lutzz Bog-Lārk, Johann Thorell, Johanna Pianka, project-leader Katrin Hornek and others)



Head of the University’s paper and book making studio, Beatrix Mapalagama ( https://www.papierwespe.at/de/beatrix-mapalagama/beatrix-mapalagama/ ) a professional colleague of my wife, showed us around her impressive domain upstairs. To feel all the textures with your own fingers and understand the processes is an unforgettable experience!
What goes on in the Studio:
‘Book Art involves design concepts and realisation in line with material requirements, including traditional bookbinding techniques, as well as free and applied objects in paper and bookbinding materials, involving folding and embossing. Packaging design and papier-mâché (especially for students from the Fine Arts and Handicrafts Teaching disciplines) are also dealt with.’
ALREADY LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR’S EVENT!







Posted in 2025, 21st century trend, art, books, creativity, inspiration, life, people, smile, talent, writing
Tagged Beatrix Mapalagama, book art, book fair, Buchmesse, creativity, dieAngewandte, inspiration, life, Lisa Reiter, Mitsuki Nakamura, smile, Vienna University of Applied Arts
In case you’d like to hear Edward talk spontaneously about Creativity for a few minutes (from the SY Cabella Camp!) …
PUBLIC ONLINE INTERVIEW IN CHINA
First video:
“How do you keep the inspiration flowing continuously and bring forth the new ones in your artistic works? Have you ever felt the inspiration exhausted? Can you share the secret of persisting in creation for decades?”
Second video (scroll down):
“Modern people’s creations can easily be displayed, for example, when they are posted on the Internet, they can easily receive affirmation and cyber attacks. For a creator, being criticized may hurt his creativity. How can he protect it?”
CLICK: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NM66yrEY-pkkf1Vm3iz1Mw
HOST’S WEBSITE TEXT:
—The second chakra of the subtle system—
The abdominal chakra is the second chakra of the subtle system. In the body, this chakra provides the energy needed for the liver, spleen, pancreas, intestines and cerebral cortex to function properly. It expresses creativity and execution. This is a very important chakra: it creates all our desires on the left side, while the right channel starts at the location of the abdominal chakra. The main quality of this chakra is creativity, but this chakra also produces fat cells which, upon reaching the brain, are converted into an energy supply that helps the brain to think and process all the information it receives.
The Trait of the Abdominal Chakra is “Creativity”
The origin of all creativity is Love. Without Love, there is no creativity. When Kundalini nourishes this center, people become very creative. All great creative work has vibrations. All works of art that vibrate are held together by time. All work without vibrations is destroyed by nature and forgotten over time.
—Ten Days of Yoga—
(IMAGES – Brigitte Saugstad artworks)
She (Kundalini/Saraswati) teaches us through nature: listen to the sounds of birds, the gurgling of a creek or the thunderous roar of a waterfall, the rustling of the wind over the leaves or the forceful blowing of a canyon.
Look at the many greens in the garden, look at the sky, look at her paintings in the clouds. How many colors she uses when the sun rises over the sea or when the sun sets, enjoy her creations.
The origin of all creativity is love. Without love, there is no creativity. She holds a veena on which she plays the most beautiful music to inspire everyone.
Not only did she teach us beautiful music, but she taught us how to dance, talk, sing, write books, paint, and build. When we meditate, she exposes us to all the knowledge we can grasp.
Posted in 2022, 21st century trend, art, Brigitte Saugstad, creativity, Ed Saugstad, fun, Ganesha, heart, hope, humanity, inspiration, Kundalini, life, light, music, smile, talent, writing
Tagged art, Brigitte Saugstad, creativity, Ed Saugstad, kundalini, Saraswati
new, edited version of my recent Oakee Doakee, children’s books, interview 🌞
Posted in art, books, children, courage, creativity, Ed Saugstad, Hanuman, heart, hope, humanity, India, innocence, inspiration, life, light, love, Oakee Doakee, Sir Ed Word, smile, timelessness, writing
Tagged children's books, China, Chinese, Hanuman, India, Oakee Doakee, Sir Ed Word, The Ramayana
Posted in 2018, art, books, creativity, drugs, Ed Saugstad, enlightenment, friendship, fun, happiness, hope, India, inspiration, life, love, meditation, music, Oakee Doakee, party, Shri Mataji, Sir Ed Word, smile, talent, writing
Tagged Brigitte Saugstad, Ed Saugstad, love, Oakee Doakee, Sir Ed Word
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Tagged art, creativity, Ed Saugstad, fun, writing
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Posted in art, books, children, courage, creativity, hope, humanity, India, life, timelessness, writing
Tagged adventure novel, history, Oakee Doakee, Ramayana, Sir Ed Word

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Posted in books, heart, hope, humanity, life, love, smile, writing
Tagged Oakee Doakee, Ramayana, Sir Ed Word, universal love
March 18, 2015 in art, creativity, fun, happiness, heart, inspiration, joy, life, love, random, smile, talent, well-being, writing
Tagged adventure, creativity, dreaming, happiness, hope, live your dream
Hi. It’s me again. Returning from the dead? Far from it, which you would know if you followed me on Facebook. 😉
When I first started blogging just over seven years ago, I was intensely gratified by the instant access to readers’ hearts and minds. Compared to conventional publishing it was a dream come true. Step up with me now to the EVEN GREATER WORLD of SOCIAL NETWORKING, where instant communication with an audience is taken to the next shining level. At least, that’s how it seems. Facebook and Twitter keep you front-stage on many people’s news-feeds, but there’s something about a blog that brings back the old feelings of leather-bound books, and … What’s a book? A book is a pile of papers stuck together on one edge, bound in a soft or hard cover, presenting worlds of nurturing information in a cozy old-fashioned way … Um, ah, a blog is a bit more like a book, although much more instant, where deeper thoughts and feelings can be laid out than on the social media freeways.
Anyway, I’m back, and glad to be here with you. It’s been a long break — over half-a-year — and you can still find me at edward.saugstad@facebook.com, but I intend to saunter back into this comfortable corner more often now.
This blog is not as cozy as a warm book, but in this fast motion world, I hope it will continue to provide you with a few moments here and there to catch your breath and feel your precious self.
Now, to prove that I’m really not dead, here’s a tiny bit of what I’ve been up to lately:
And I feel greatly honoured to know that over 108,000 times, fellow human beings have been drawn to the pages herein. (You in Italy who came here at 13:57 on June 3, let me know if you read this!)
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You know the scene at the end of Back to the Future when the geeky dad is transformed into a cool dude, and the boxes of his new adventure novel are delivered to their home? … I feel a bit like that today!
stay tuned …
(official public release soon to be announced …)
Thousands of years ago, when cavemen still roamed the rest of the world, kingdoms and advanced technology thrived in the mysterious East. The oldest surviving story on Earth tells of a king who was forced to banish his beloved son to the wilderness. This noble heir to the throne is believed by some to have been a benevolent deity incarnated in human form, who came to teach mankind the highest qualities of selfless love. But our science could find no evidence of the fantastic events of that lost culture, when men and beasts spoke with each other and demons stole flying machines from the gods. There was no proof until a little boy from modern times stumbled back through the thick curtain of time, into the most thrilling period of prehistory, to participate in events that would shape the entire human race. At last, we know the truth….
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Posted in books, enlightenment, India, life, smile, writing
Tagged adventure, children's books, India, novel, Oakee Doakee, Ramayana, writing, young readers
In 1995 I was intending to buy a typewriter to start writing stories, but someone told me to get a computer instead, because you can delete your mistakes. They suggested I contact a mutual friend who had computer experience. It turned out (happily!) that he was one of the relatively few Mac users in Austria at that time (there was one small Mac repair/retail shop in the whole of Austria then). I ordered a Powerbook 150 (with 240 MB — not GB — hard drive! 4 MB RAM, and tiny black and white screen) from the USA. It was the beginning of a priceless creative relationship which is still improving and expanding today. I’ve since upgraded my hardware every four or five years (my second Powerbook enabled me to taste —in color! — the early fruits of the World Wide Web) and got my first iPod in 2002, before they became universally popular. (And I’ve had my @mac — now @me — email address and web services for ten years running, which I can now even access from my ‘iPhone’.)
PC users argue that there’s nothing special about Macs, but it comes down to a simple preference based on the user’s inclination to work more with the left or right side of the brain. A mechanical (dryer) user will find Windows just fine, thank you very much; but a more artistic (wetter) user will enjoy the fun/intuitive/elegant style of Macs much more, smiling occasionally down upon the sarcastic PC fan.
We’ve come a long way along the road of creative communication. Let’s hope there may be many more Steve Jobs’ out here among the creative generation of babies and youngsters growing up in our midst.
Happy trails, Steve.
Best wishes, Ed
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Tagged Apple, creativity, mac, Steve Jobs
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Tagged creativity, genius, hope
Mama Mia — how time does fly! Sorry for the gap. I’ll be back with you shortly. Presently on the road.
~Ed
(sent from a WIFI hotspot somewhere in the middle of England)

As I clasp my hand tightly in yours,
from my heart emerges a solemn wish:
that happiness and wisdom will come freely to you,
and that your knowledge may be bountiful.
Also, hope that the winds of reality may be gentle,
and guide you peacefully through the tides of life –
for you are my brother, and my love for you is infinite.
Ed Saugstad, age fourteen, 1972
(a message to the human race)

(Ed’s cover for the Burnsview Junior High School yearbook, 1972-73, North Delta, Canada)
After countless hours, days and weeks of sleepless labor
Oakee Doakee has arrived at last!
If you know anyone who’s looking for a new kind of
children’s adventure book
check out my recently published creations … 😀
~ click to zip over to Oakee’s place! ~
Mumble, mumble – write, write – headscratch – scribble, doodle . . .
Oh! There you are. So nice of you to drop in. I’ve just been jotting down some mental blogger notes. How did writers prime the pumps of their inspiration before the advent of Blogging? The distant, wobbly promise of publishing in a book or magazine and, maybe, having it read by someone couldn’t really have been enough to draw out all those precious waters of literature, could it have? Speaking of water, could you just pass me that glass of it over there? – yeah – thanks . . . Ahhhh, that’s better. YOU are indispensable 😉
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