Welcome to Litsy!

Getting some sweet snuggles in during this #24in48. Making slow progress on this book because I keep bouncing between books. @24in48 #Jethro

It‘s on y‘all! #24in48 is starting and I‘m so painfully excited. #Readathon @24in48

Raworth‘s book critiques classically held positions on economics and suggests that we need to draw a new image for the 21st century that offers a safe and just space for humanity. While the aim is ambitious, the argument feels valid. It‘ll take a lot of hard work but our future depends on it.

This was about new ways to think about economics. Rather than relying on GDP to gauge economic success, the author proposes looking at such factors as sustainability, quality of life and networks of interconnectivity to rethink economic success. My biggest beef is the ideal the author describes working toward is global communism, but she never calls it that. Interesting to read, and I think it's important to look at subjects from alternate POVs.

Damn this book is kick ass!! Don‘t let the word ‘economics‘ scare you away. Raworth has written a fast-paced, readable book about the challenges of climate change and global inequality. Guess what? There are realistic solutions! It will take a HUGE amount of political will and clamoring voices but we can swing this dumpster fire around. I really encourage everyone (especially parents; you‘re invested in future generations) to read this book! #life

“Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation. Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.” - Adam Phillips (psychoanalyst and essayist)

We all have a part to play in redirecting the future. We do this with our present choices. Buy less plastic. Reject fast fashion. Demand that our leaders recognize climate change.

“What we draw determines what we can and cannot see, what we notice and what we ignore, and so shapes all that follows.”

This book (or at least what I imagine is the content of this book) describes my day perfectly - buying 3.5 dozen doughnuts to bribe children and making sure that kids are reading! Top readers in each grade got on the wall today. #todayareader #tomorrowaleader

A doughnut is a shape, right?
#ashapeinthetitle #junebookbugs