Take a world tour with books — and find yourself. — Vagabond English
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It never ceases to amaze me how healing reading can be — and writing.
Especially when life is fast and unrelenting.
I bet you haven’t missed the fact that we live in times that require a great amount of flexibility. This ability to invent and reinvent ourselves, to come up with new and novel reactions to an ever-shifting landscape.
It’s at the root of our resilience — and so it’s also the root of our creativity.
Do you know what else changes the way I see things…keeps me reading and writing, what keeps me flexible, creative…sane?
Reading and writing alongside others. Because it keeps you going. Because it helps you make sense of the world — and therefore — yourself.
I’m thinking of one of those conversations we’re having in our Vagabond Voices creative community.
The one that got us thinking about why the different cultures we’re from — or live in — have superstitions, the way we think of good luck or bad. How people of different cultures bond with each other — or not — through shared experiences, sometimes hardship. That conversation, with people I love to create alongside, changed me. It changed the way I see my own life and my own little borrowed corner of the world.
Sometimes a community of vagabonds is the closest thing to home…
Not because people are from where you’re from, or live where you live. But because they know what it’s like to be from and of many different places — to have more than one point of view. To ask similar questions.
And so, let me ask you:
Who are you in these times? And do you need to find yourself again by touring the world with books?
And…in case you’re thinking of asking yourself some interesting questions — or just traveling the world in a book and finding yourself again…
Here are our Vagabond Books through June of 2022…
They will remind you who you truly are.
There is no better way to find yourself than by exploring the world…So here are the books we’ve chosen this time:
February 15th: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
March: Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason
April: Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
May: The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
June: Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
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And if you’re thinking that now is the time to wander from reading…into writing. Well, join us for the next step of your adventure.
Want to come home to a community of fellow Vagabonds?
Read along, get tiny prompts for a little more inspiration, join us for one of our free writing workshops…or for a book chat. If you’re interested, join the newsletter and get all the invitations.
And if you’ve got a Vagabond Story to share and want to write for this publication, just get in touch.
Originally published at https://www.vagabondenglish.com on February 11, 2022.
