It arrived!
I opened the door to see that familiar brown cardboard box, wrapped in black tape, at my doorstep.
Just two days earlier I had ordered a little gift … just for me. A simple hardcover book, filled with few words, simple sketches, yet the images and words had been boosting my mood all summer long on the Instagram account of the author.
The book title, sounding more like a children’s picture book … The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, is like taking a meandering walk with a young child, still inquisitive about absolutely everything, still unguarded, willing to ask the tough questions … willing to share their deepest thoughts.
It is pure delight!
I think what drew my attention to the work of this man was that it’s message is simple, vulnerable, positive … real.
I think too that it was like a mirage in the desert … for this summer, this year has been dark, depressing filled with hate.
It is too easy to sit on the dung pile too long.
Eventually, we all need a ray of sunshine, a light at the end of the tunnel … a little positivity to shine a light in the news of a dark world.
Through the beautiful simplicity of real and vulnerable words, my heart was lightened, hope restored.
“My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus”
“They dare to be vulnerable,
which makes them closer.”
Charlie Mackesy
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