Today, home on 'spring break' (the average temperature is 50 degrees), I made a trip to the branch library three blocks away. I had placed holds on several books and some movies and went to collect them. I did not have the pleasure of pulling books off the shelf -such is the fate of a city library system: lots of little libraries with books spread out across vast distances. The only way to attain a desired book or movie is to request it via hold, unless you get lucky and it happens to be there at the branch you visit at the time you visit.
I still had immense satisfaction in watching the librarian pull book after book from the holdings shelf and hand them to me to put in my voluminous bag. Leaving the library with a bag full of books is so wholesome -so much knowledge! so many other worlds and times and adventures! The weight of so many beautiful books to take home is so pleasing.
Sadly, all these books were for my brothers' school work. Alas, spring break is not long enough for me to catch up or even start ahead on my own school reading, let alone read for pleasure.
I look forward to that blessed time in the summer. For now, I'll be spending spring break with my homies John Locke and Karl Marx.
~Jojo
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