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This week at Cybirdy we have been thinking about ideas of solidarity and how books in all their forms can build unity through shared experience.
It starts with an idea, a writer’s ambition to tell a story, a need to express something important to him or to her, a determination to impart knowledge. But creating the written word often happens in isolation, a lonely solo activity. An authors words germinate, the literary soil fed by collaboration between writers, editors and artists allow storybook seedlings to emerge.
As a small publishing company Cybirdy nurtures the solidarity of creatives to make books happen, but sustainable growth comes from the warm rays of sunlight that can only be reflected by readers. This is where our own piece of cyberspace can extraordinarily create a profound catharsis, a space without borders, where we can find similarities in places we’re taught there are differences. A place to nurture lifelong friendships, that will grow into an integral part of our mutual support structure.
Readers want to feel, to learn, to share, and the online world really matters in offering freedom to create meaningful relationships of substance – the place of Eduardo Galeno’s ‘horizontal solidarity’ where we can respect the other person – the place we can bridge the gap between readers and writers democratically, in a way that counts.
Join us in our journey of solidarity as Albert Jacquard said “between all inhabitants of the Earth”
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