A library doesn’t claim to change the world, but it may just change us.
Love Letter: Libraries
Age
We'll always be looking ahead longingly, until we're looking back wistfully.
Love Letter: Tess and Nick
In 2009, I thought I was told to go to Uganda by God. Luckily, I really wanted to go.
What’s on the inside?
“Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers, but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.” - Rachel Naomi Remen
Screw you, Robert Frost
I thought I'd left Frost's poem behind, but he had maintained his grip on me all these years. Recently I was chatting about what the future looks like with my counsellor Toni, when she asked, “What are you scared of?”
Love Letter: Hanya Yanagihara
With Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, I needed some space between takes. I picked it up by chance in the library in 2017, and I only read half of the blurb before I knew I wanted to give it a go.
The small things rarely are
These lines sit in the back pocket of my diary, and I pull them out when I need some grounding. When the achievement means more than who I am becoming as I work towards the goal. When I get a head full of self-importance and how I treat those around me suffers.
Remote work
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. -Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
