You Have Everything (or can anyway)

"Wait. You might have glossed over that last paragraph-perhaps because it's so short but especially because it's so challenging.

What I'm saying is that one person can make a video that reaches fifty million viewers.

What I'm saying is that one person can invent a pricing model that turns an industry upside down.

What I'm saying is that one person-okay, what I really me is you-has everything. Everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself. The people around you realize this, and they are ready to follow if you're ready to lead"

- Seth Godin from the book Tribes: We Need You to Leads Us

Eat at Home, Read the Books

"For the price of a dinner in this town, you can buy all the books. So eat at home and read the books."

 - Jack Rabinovitch as he announced the winner of the Giller Prize tonight.

Very cool!

Books are Natural and Beautiful

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"A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the west, or in the jungles of the east."

Henry David Thoreau. Walking Part 2 paragraph 31

The Magic is in the Book

"It’s better to transmit these nursery rhymes . . . with the aid of a book, so that the value and authority of the book are present from the start, and so that the magic remains in the book."

- Joseph Gold. Read For Your Life: Literature as a Life Support System. Fitzhenry and Whiteside: Markham, 1990. pg 156

Parents, please make sure to read to your kids when they are young so that they can appreciate the magic that is in a book.

What a great message!

A Truly Good Book...

"A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the west, or in the jungles of the east."

- Thoreau, Henry David. Walking Part 2 paragraph 31