What's better than cake? How do people hold it together? How do we deal with feelings of imperfection? How should we love? What do we do when our hearts hurt?

If you liked the Tao of Pooh or Johnathon Livingstone Seagull, you'll love this book and want to gift it to others.

My husband kept making me laugh talking about how he got a book from the library, calling it variations of things as he'd forgotten the title. I had no context and no idea of what he was on about. It became, interchangeably:

• The Fox, The Ocelot and the Teapot
• The Fox, the Dog and the somethingortheother
• The Fox, The Narwhale, the Poltergeist and the Walrus

And so on, until he brought the book home. It had been recommended by colleagues at work so he grabbed it from the school library.

'The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and The Horse' by Charlie Mackery illustrated by the author, is a delightful book full of simple yet profound wisdoms, like how people might look perfect but underneath they're struggling, and how friendship and love doesn't care for such things.

From the little mole that focusses on happiness via cake to the fox chained to his own nature yet is saved by love, the characters in this story are sweetly perfect, as troubled by life as we are, and ready to send us off on our day with a bit of peace in our hearts, especially if one reads it over breakfast.

And I Keep Worrying...

That beautiful gems like this, hand drawn and handwritten, will be no longer in a world where AI will write for us, philosophise for us, because there will no longer be any support for creatives in a world where the machine creates to 'make our lives easier'. Own nothing and be happy. Create nothing and be happy.

And that's the very, very least of it, almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of what's to come.

I wonder what the mole, the fox, the boy and the horse would think of this world, as they stare with me into this wilderness.