Thanks for joining me!

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin

Recently I watched one of Will Smith’s amazing IGTV stories and I found myself drawn to a very specific line: his insistence that finding one’s purpose was grounded in exploring and experiencing. It has been my experience that exploration has led me to many things, especially books, which have provided me with multiple means of adding other’s experiences to my own.

The idea that there is no problem that one can have that has not already been explored by someone else in a book is not an incorrect maxim. Books have always been a symbol of humanity’s on-going search for themselves as well as a symbol of man’s search for his place relative to the world.

Here I will seek to explore and experience through not only books, but music, cigars, politics, and whatever catches my eyes and ears.

hopefully you’ll be along for the journey.

Cheers,

Akili Nzuri