“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”
finding good belongs to a small community of people who are committed to reconnecting with the simplest parts of our humanity.
We are a non-profit that promotes community engagement and consciousness of collective social responsibility, through organising events and volunteering opportunities with charities across the UK; encouraging wider reading, reflection and in-person dialogue through our book club; and fundraising for the National Literacy Trust.
“[…] there is nevertheless a certain respect, a general duty of humanity, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees, and plants. We owe justice to men, and graciousness and benignity to other creatures that are capable of it; there is a certain commerce and mutual obligation betwixt them and us.”
– Michel de Montaigne, Essays (“On Cruelty”)
Inspired by the Buddhist practice of “interbeing” — the belief that everything in the universe exists in tandem, and that there is no independent state of existence — finding good aims to shift the “self-care” narrative away from the individual “I” and back onto the collective “we”. Recognising that true growth relies on joint effort and collective improvement, finding good is our interminable journey to finding goodness again, through reconnecting with the natural world around us, each other, and ourselves.
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“Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.”
Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.“
Ursula K. Le Guin – The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“My face is and isn’t me. It’s a nice face. It has lots of people in it. My parents, my grandparents, and their grandparents, all the way back through time and countless generations to my earliest ancestors—all those iterations are here in my face, along with all the people who’ve ever looked at me.”
Ruth Ozeki – Timecode of a Face
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the Earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart
“He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.”
Sally Rooney – Normal People
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