The Invitation by Oriah

She wrote this late one night after returning home from a party that had been filled with disappointing social conversation. It begins with “It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living… It doesn’t interest me how old you are…I doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself...I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own..if you can see beauty, even when it’s not pretty…I want to know what sustains you, from the inside when all else falls away.” An engaging small book that connects us with the ordinariness and the preciousness of our lives.

Fairy Godmother personal note: Rarely have I read a book that truly felt like an invitation in my hands to think and dream about the most treasured pieces of me and my life.