Common Ties is publishing our first book in early 2011!
We are now reviewing submissions for possible future books, and will publish our favorites answers–some with art, some without–right here on our blog every week. Scroll down to check out the latest submissions!
What is the most gracious act of kindness you have witnessed?
A family from the UK spends Christmas in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda, sleeping in mud huts, using pit latrines and fetching water from a well, to show the victims of the brutal 20-year civil war that they are not forgotten.
Words and image by Rachel Spencer
What is your most embarrassing moment?
On a drunken New Year’s Eve, my girlfriend, housemate and I decided to walk around our neighborhood naked, to enthusiastically greet passersby. The first people we approached turned out to be our landlords. Without a word, we turned and ran. Sharing our holiday spirit, they evicted us the next day.
Words and image by Tom Bentley
What was your strangest encounter?
Growing up my mother always talked about how beautiful and aristocratic her relatives in Hungary were. I never met many of them until I I was in my late 20s. She still tells me that communism must be to blame for their appearance.
Text by Alisa Spitzberg | Illustration by Lauren Spitzberg
