by stackofbooks | Apr 30, 2015 | All
Maya Angelou was a poet who drew our attention to the common humanity we share. She said, “We are more alike than not alike,” which means that when you’re looking at someone else, you’re really just looking at another potential you. So if you focus on the ugliness of...
by stackofbooks | Apr 30, 2015 | All
You are playing a game of hide and seek with your brothers and sisters on a sunny day. You find the perfect hiding spot in a wardrobe. But as you wait for someone to find you, you discover the wardrobe has no end. You move further in, till you find yourself in another...
by stackofbooks | Apr 30, 2015 | All
A really famous song came on the radio the other day when I was in the car, and it annoyed me. It was the song Waterfalls by American girl group TLC. I used to sing it quite happily as a child but now, sat in traffic; I was listening to it and singing along with the...
by stackofbooks | Apr 30, 2015 | All
Writing was invented 6000 years ago. It was invented to create a record of business transactions, but it took a further thousand years for the language to evolve and tell the world its first stories, conveying emotional states that eventually also led to our first...
by stackofbooks | Apr 30, 2015 | All
Kids can be quite cruel when it comes to pointing a finger at someone. On one hand this is a good thing because it shows their pure honesty and complete lack of hypocrisy, but generally when you call someone “loser” usually it takes them years trying to...
