Nina Palmer is a graphic designer and illustrator. She lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. Almost by accident, she and her family spent the first part of the Pandemic in a small, darkly lit cabin in remote Bamfield, British Columbia, where seagulls and barnacles are bountiful. She thinks it is a worthwhile pastime to sit on a dock or a snowdrift and contemplate whether it is better to be a boisterous world traveller or a solitary barely-moving thinker. Surely the world is both a sprawling catalogue of experience and also a very small and singular gem in the sunlight. This is her first illustrated book.