Reading, Empathy, and the Operation of a Small Business
In order to fix typewriters, I have to care about them. In order to care about them, I have to use them. In order to use them, I have to know how to write. In order to know how to write, I have to read. In order to read, I have to absorb.
“Attention, Kmart Shoppers…”
Gifts, unless plucked from a list of foregone “wants,” are expressions of what one person thinks another to be. It’s almost a kind of game, in which people are thrust, by holiday or hindsight, into attempting to define another by who they believe that person is, inside.