Molly in Kenya

I need you to read this book. John Green describes how I feel about Coleman Barks’ translations of Rumi

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

2 weeks ago / 13 notes / reblog

SO GOOD.
“I would like to beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves.”

3 weeks ago / 15 notes / reblog

“[Conquering malaria] would take more than just time and money, more even than a sense of purpose and persistence. It required a moral vision and imagination: a person or a team stubbornly dedicated to the idea that no child’s death should ever be ignored as “inevitable” or “senseless,” and abundantly blessed with practical wisdom to tackle a problem that has baffled others.”
READ THIS BOOK, IT WILL CHALLENGE AND EDUCATE YOU!

1 month ago / 25 notes / reblog

“It’s a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. Well, “Blink” is a book about those two seconds, because I think those instant conclusions that we reach are really powerful and really important and, occasionally, really good.” -Malcolm Gladwell

1 month ago / 32 notes / reblog

obviously had to read this one! a quick and hilarious read :)

1 month ago / 12 notes / reblog

Rob Spillman’s incredible anthology of contemporary African writing.

1 month ago / 13 notes / reblog

I really recommend this book— it got me thinking a LOT about culturally competent healthcare.

2 months ago / 22 notes / reblog

Romeo Dallaire, one of my biggest heroes, tells you what you need to know about child soldiers.

2 months ago / 27 notes / reblog

“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be labeled as something unusual.” -Bertold Brecht
How to be an Explorer of the World, by Keri Smith

3 months ago / 32 notes / reblog

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah… this book will open your eyes.

3 months ago / 37 notes / reblog