“You have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.” ― Harriet Tubman

Day 13: Today I’m in New York! We arrived last night & have spent a beautiful day, jet-lagged but happy. Tonight I had the great pleasure of meeting my new editor for the first time, the lovely Linda Marrow at Random House, We met in a gorgeous place (Radiance Tea House & Books) and we experienced a little miracle of loveliness. We were talking, with great passion, about stationary and letter writing when a woman from another table leaned over, apologising for interrupting, to tell us how struck she was by our passion and how infectious it was. She smiled with such delight as she joined our conversation – sharing her own passion for paper – and I was deeply touched. I’m certain that, when we parted, we were all closer to touching the stars (so to speak) and, for me at least, it was a beautiful reminder of the great and glorious power of passion to change the world, or at least transform the lives of the people inhabiting it.

Pic: touring the stationary shops of Brooklyn