Dublin host
Evonne O’Rourke
Choose Empathy over Anger
Writer, Sarah Maria Griffin, talks about her work and how important empathy is in public discourse on social media.
About the speaker
Sarah Maria Griffin is a writer from Dublin. While living in San Francisco between 2012 - 2015, she wrote the non-fiction book, Not Lost, which was published by New Island in 2013. Her essays can be read on The Rumpus, The Irish Times, Midnight Breakfast amongst many other places. Her first novel, Spare & Found Parts, will be released by Greenwillow (Harper Collins) in October this year.
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Use what you learn to adjust the reality that you live in, day to day.
Just because you’re woke, doesn’t mean you’re not still in bed.
We’re in an echo chamber, where it feels like the world is changing, but it isn’t.
It was books that taught me that the things that torment me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
Here, in the cold water, I am seeing the same gang of mermaids singing as I always do.
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