I have a wonderful friend who kept encouraging me to do yoga. Yoga does not appeal to me and I felt badly about not wanting to do yoga, but worse, I felt badly about myself. Mentally I would be thinking, "I'm just a slug." That got me thinking about slugs in a whole different way --not destructive, but quiet and maybe quite lovely. Sylvia (like me) is not athletic like her friends, but she has her own way. And, it works for her. I'm pretty sure there are other 'slugs' out there! In the book, Sylvia (a tiny, yoga-practicing, calligrapher slug) uses a peaceful way to demonstrate that through civility, not fighting, problems can be solved.