Moved by this Monday - Food, Comfort, and Hemingway
This is the first edition of MOVED BY THIS MONDAY.🎉 Mondays are for sharing inspiration.
Below are a few things that have moved me recently - I hope there’s something in here that resonates for you too.
Food Support Initiatives
I recently read that one in four American households have experienced food insecurity. This number gets much higher when we look globally. It’s hard to think of anyone going hungry but I’m heartbroken when I think of the millions of kids who are starving right now.
Below are organizations that work hard to provide food support to people who need it. Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday - please consider giving money or time if you have it in your heart, wallet, or schedule.
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
“We are often encouraged to see life as one continual uphill climb. We talk about ladders without even thinking. Career ladders. Property ladders. Of being on the top rung of the ladder. Or the bottom rung of the ladder. We talk of climbing the ladder. We talk of rising up. We talk of uphill struggles. In doing so we visualize life as a kind of vertical race, like we are human skyscrapers reaching for the clouds. And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
I’ve loved everything I’ve consumed by Matt Haig including The Comfort Book, The Midnight Library, his Instagram feed, and the movie A Boy Called Christmas.
The Comfort Book is a collection of short 1-2 page “life rafts” including stories, thoughts, playlists. The title says it all, this book has definitely been a comfort to me over the past year.
I think one of the things that is so inspiring about Matt Haig’s writing is his ability to convey something true. Even if that truth is painful.
Which reminds me of another famous author who has inspired many.
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.’ So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
I would love to hear what’s inspired or moved you recently in the comments - a podcast, a book, a quote, a conversation, a song, a cause.