by Steven Felson (Illustrator), Melissa Felson (Author)

At one point in your life - or, to be truthful, at many times - you will find yourself needing to shapeshift.

An Ode to the Five Elements I Became This Year is a tribute to our innate human gift, our ultimate superpower: The ability to adapt and to persevere amidst the unexpected, the painful, the tragic. It is both a celebration and a reminder: If ever you find yourself a ruined sandcastle on the shore, or like mud beneath someone's boots, or with a heart of stone to fortify against the pain, despair not. You are brick and you will rebuild. You are clay, indelibly armed with the power to reshape yourself.