Weekend Reading: 21st / 22nd Feb 2026
Writing worth reading
Activating The Light Inside by Tom Morgan
“Years later, she was driving on Highway 280 in California when everything suddenly came back to her. She says she doesn’t have words for it. It was as if the universe was fed up with her. It had been trying to tell her since she was three that she had something to do, and she had been ignoring it”.
The empty soul of Britain’s Palm Springs by Miles Ellingham
“Bertie claims there are two types of Sandbanks resident: those who live around the outside, with views of the water, and those who live in the centre — the “cheap seats”, he calls them, “much more of a community”. Norman grew up in Sandbanks after moving from Glasgow. He had a thick Weegie accent once, but that was swiftly bullied out of him”.
The Stoic Investor by Michael McCloskey
“Warren and Charlie both watched their rich friends purchase larger homes and yet become less happy…”
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