Forty ways to improve the world of the bestselling author of the Šumava wilderness
Dear Lord God, you've made this world a good one. Really. I don't know what it's like on other planets you've created or are working on, but it's great here. But at school, they told me "It's very good, but you're better than that. Let's make it even better next time." They told me that until about the middle of second grade, and then the teachers told me completely different things, but let's leave that aside for now. Even you, God, can do better. Forgive me for saying so, it's still an A, but if you give it some care, it could be an A underlined. Good thing you have me. I'll give you some advice on how to do it.
Forty improvements, to improve the world, that the author does not propose to politicians, economists or various activists, but straight to God, are a humorous probe into our fears, complexes, weaknesses, Errors, of unnecessary worries and trivialities, that we're poisoning our lives with. It would take so little to make the world a better place. Sometimes it only takes one unexpected event to make us realize what is important in life, what to bet on and what brings true joy.
G. K. Chesterton once wrote a famous defense of the enormous little things we overlook. Aleš Palán has written a fresh defence of our everyday weaknesses, which only need a little bit (if only you would make a small improvement, Lord God) to get the opposite sign. We're not that bad, we're just better than that.
Jan Hrubý's illustrations not only illustrate the individual reflections, but also complete and comment on them in a specific way.
