A psalm for the wild-built – Do you have milk and optimism with your tea?

I distinctly remember last year I suddenly started hearing about this book everywhere I went: online, among peers, someone at the university mentioned it etc. And everyone only had good things to say about it. So when I started looking for my next read, I picked this up on my Kindle. I remember reading the first dozen or so pages before pausing the book in favour of work and eventually forgetting all about it. This was no fault of the book of course. When Nadja Bester proposed this book for the IndieWeb Book Club this month, I could not help but rush to pick it up again. This book is a bit like one of those stories kids really like to listen to over and over again but adults cannot seem to fathom why. There are some stories that go beyond the characters and places and times to make you feel a certain way. You do not like them for their story – and I mean this as a compliment – rather for how their story made you feel. A novella is especially well-suited for this sort of thing, and…