This book is an amazing phenomenon because not only the author, but also the other participants create their works of art, overcoming severe illnesses. Here it is appropriate to quote the author’s own lines about the nightingale from his wreath of sonnets: “Nature knows the power of lambing, the elasticity of a compressed form, only in it is it so crowded - and therefore more free, more painful to sing about happiness! And so it sounds...” And just as in these lines we are talking about the external discrepancy between the singer’s unremarkable appearance and his singing, so any physical limitation can be a powerful incentive for limitless development and overcoming this limitation with creativity. You only need to show will, love of life and the desire for perfection. This is a book of creative achievements of strong-willed and life-hungry people, the poetic images in which resonate primarily in mood, and the illustrations, for all their aesthetic self-sufficiency, take on themselves, in a stream of verbal figurative sound, and also the role of images without words. The nightingale in nature also sometimes falls silent so that you can continue to enjoy its singing.