After reading the fictional “How To Stop Time” and now his nonfiction work “The Comfort Book,” I’m quickly becoming a big fan of Matt Haig. His words are not overly spiritual and there are no pithy platitudes to be found. Encouragement is rooted in the sharing of his experiences (and others’) as well as logical arguments in favor of hope. All feelings come and go. The good and the bad. Yes we don’t know what’s going to happen and that could be bad but it could be good. Fear and hope BOTH come from uncertainty, so we can sometimes make an active choice to hope instead of fear. “We aren’t at the mercy of the world we can never control, we are at the mercy of a mind we can, potentially, with effort and determination, begin to alter and expand.”