Sawubona, a Zulu greeting, 'I see you and welcome your presence.' A beautiful sentiment, the embodiment of paying attention, 'I notice you. I am with you. You are not invisible.' Inside this book are stories by writers who have done exactly that.
They have opened their eyes and hearts to people, places, objects, joys, griefs and small acts of survival. Embraced what is broken, funny, tender, nearly invisible.
No heroes in capes. No grand speeches. Just human beings on a shared planet - complicated, hopeful, lonely, ridiculous and brave.
These stories do not wave from a distance.
They come closer.
They see.
Autorentext
Robert L. Shelley trained first as an architect and, now working primarily as a writer, has spent most of his life making things, be it shaping clay as a potter, taking photographs, surviving restaurant kitchens, directing hotel ambience, or building stories with a designer's sense of structure and an artist's eye for detail. He is involved with WriteSpace Creative, a community built by writers for writers, has studied creative non-fiction at Cambridge and is currently completing a master's in creative fiction at Anglia Ruskin University, which all sounds terribly respectable until you remember he still prefers a good sentence to a sensible one. His work often explores memory, place, longing, and the strange emotional architecture of lives half-lived or half-imagined, with humour never too far behind. Registered with the NSW Board of Architects, he is also a member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Society of Authors, Orwell Society, Writing NSW, and the Design Institute of Australia.