November 2011
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
—Carl Sagan (via thechocolatebrigade)
Hi, I won’t be posting a lot for the next month because I am in Europe. I may post some photos from my travels. Stick with me. Thanks.
“My father used to say, ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.’”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
