Tag: read to grow

Steps to Growth? One Book at a Time

I spent some time on a special project last month that led me down memory lane – to the summer of 2023, when friends and family partnered with me to donate a literary step to Kenya Connect that featured the cover of my novel Watercolored Pearls.

This nonprofit based in a rural region of East Africa understands how fostering reading and literacy among youth and parents alike can uplift generations.

It was an honor to have the Watercolored Pearls step installed near book covers donated by my literary friends Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft. Reflecting on the impact of giving youths daily exposure to books, and reading, lifted my hope.

As we enter this long holiday weekend, wherever you live in the world, I encourage you to visit your local library, bookstore or your own bookshelf and pick a book to read or re-read, while inspiring a young person in your life to do the same.

Reading can build knowledge and empathy, foster understanding and creativity, and ultimately, strengthen humanity.

Keep Reading, Keep Growing

There is power in stories. 

They help you better understand yourself and others, and they help you make sense of the world in which we live. 

Before this week ends, why not commit to reading some short fiction or a novel over the course of this month? Or pick up a memoir; perhaps a biography.

Read to laugh, weep, learn or grow. 

Read to gain context, read to know.

Whether you choose some of my work or that of some of my fellow authors, enjoy, immerse yourself and reap the benefits of immersing yourself in stories, long after you’ve reached The End.