Tiny Beautiful Things

I'm in the middle of reading this book and I just have to share with you ladies how much it has touched me. Like, profoundly. It's a collection of the "Dear Sugar" advice columns (never heard of it before picking this up) but it's like no other advice column I've ever read.
She takes one email and just completely gets to the heart of what it means to BE, to live fully, to be human and compassionate and kind and empowered. I loved it. Here's a few snippets:

"You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all."


"You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding."

It's amazing. Get it. Read it.

Re: Tiny Beautiful Things

Sounds awesome!