I laughed and cried more than I've done in a long time yesterday and I did it in a rather crumbling and somehow still splendid art deco library in a forgotten corner of Leeds. That was the first miracle, since my associations with libraries are mainly centred around hushed silence. These days, it seems, no one minds too much if you speak above a whisper. Go figure. And there are computers now, great banks of them whirring away in companionable virtual activity. I've stayed away too long, clearly.
I was there to give a 45 minute talk on life coaching as part of Hunslet Library's Reading for Wellbeing initiative, organised by Lyn Bambury, a trailblazing angel of determination who had quietly and charmingly talked a collection of lifestyle professionals into giving up their afternoon and their skills for a good cause. No one knew quite what to expect - the turn out could have been 1 or 100 - so it was with some trepidation that I stood at my flip chart waiting for the first members of the audience to drift in and take their seats. I wasn't at all prepared for what actually happened...
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