Three things I didn’t know before I read A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader edited by Maria Popova and Claude Zoe Bedrick and published by Enchanted Lion Books. 1) This book took eight years from start to finish. 2) This book includes 121 letters to young readers written by artists, writers, philosophers, scientists, musicians, entrepreneurs and more. 3) That each letter is accompanied by an original illustration from an artist. A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader was one of those books someone told me about so I waited until my to-be-read pile got a wee bit smaller before I checked it out from the…