Welcome, Wonder Seeker
Find the words. Follow your curiosity.
Sometimes we discover something before we have the language to understand it.
The Great Library is a place to find your footing, explore an idea, and discover other ways of seeing the landscape.
Start with what you need. You decide how far you want to wander.
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No required reading. Sassy insists on that.📰 BREAKING NEWS FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY!
Fresh discoveries! Fascinating voices! Questions you didn't know you wanted to ask!
Our first two magazines have landed. Peek inside for Roger Ebert on empathy and Dewitt Jones on seeing what's right.
Warning: curiosity may cause unexpected detours. 😉📚 Calling All Bookworms!
Love discovering books that make you laugh, wonder, think, or see something differently? Come pull up a chair! We read a book every six weeks and are planning one-hour online get-togethers. Cameras optional, curiosity welcome, and you can come even if you haven’t finished the book.
There’s always room for one more around the campfire.Official Great Library Humor Department
Why did the dog lay in the shade?
Because she didn’t want to be a hot dog.
Submitted by Dan · Groaning is permitted.Misplaced something somewhere in the Sassiverse?
Lost the keys to your Exactor? Please check with the Information Desk.
Additional mysterious objects may appear here without explanation.The Information Desk is attempting to keep track of her whereabouts.
Choose a doorway
The Great Library does not hold every answer. It holds language, guides, stories, possibilities, things worth wondering about, and places to go when you want to look a little closer.
You do not need to read everything. Find what is useful for the Adventure you are on today, and leave the rest for another trail.
Sassiverse Language
Sometimes we need words before we can talk about what we found.
The Bookshelves hold the growing language of the Sassiverse: small books that help us name, notice, and talk about things we may encounter along the trail.
Rocks. Parachutes. Sunny Spots. Fences. Gold. Backpacks. Assumption Mirrors. North Stars. And whatever language we discover we need next.
These books are not instructions for becoming. They give us words we can carry into Labs, Adventures, conversations, and our own lives.
Enter the BookshelvesFoldouts & Helpful Guides
A little help finding your way.
Trail Guides are the small, practical guides you can unfold when you need help navigating something in the Sassiverse.
Find maps, safety information, quick references, instructions, reminders, and other useful things designed to travel with you.
New travelers should probably begin with the Research Station Safety Guide before experimenting with unusual equipment, magical objects, or anything involving a suspiciously accessible magic wand.
Browse the Trail GuidesFrom the Reading Table
Tiny books of possibilities.
Sometimes a Language Book gives you enough. Sometimes you want to wander deeper.
The Magazine is where ideas get more room: stories, photography, experiments, interviews, perspectives, practices, research, things other travelers have tried, and longer wanderings around a question.
There is no Sassiverse-approved recipe. Borrow what makes you curious. Experiment with what seems useful. Leave the rest on the reading table.
Explore the Magazine Rack →A Place of Your Own
Some books in this Library can only be written by you.
One day, this will be the home for the pieces of your own Adventure you decide to keep: Field Notes, your Gold Journal, saved Sparkles and Wonder, meaningful discoveries, stories from the trail, and other treasures gathered while you travel.
The Sassiverse can offer language, questions, stories, tools, guides, and places to experiment. Your experiences, your meaning, and your Gold will always belong to you.
Wander Back
New questions will be asked. New stories will arrive. New photographs will find their shelves. Someone will discover another way of seeing.
And sometimes you will return to the very same words and discover that you are the thing that changed.
Come back whenever curiosity calls.