Rob Tourtelot

AJ Tibando

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When I started writing, my sister gave me this advice:

“Don’t tell people what to think, why it matters or what they should do about it - just tell them your story. Talk about what you learned but don’t tell them what they should learn. They’ll either learn it by listening or aren’t interested in learning. And if they’re not interested, ... See more

“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”

― Richard Powers, The Overstory

I’m always searching for mystery, something unexpected and dissonant, something to be curious about.

by gems I do NOT mean the author’s ideas or theories. Those are the last things we want. We want to form our own ideas. By gems I mean a little glimpse of something surprising and dissonant and mysterious – a person or a situation or a moment in history where you think, ‘I didn’t expect that ’ or ‘I don’t understand that , I’d like to go down a rab... See more