Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Happy National Library Day

Today was probably more in honor of the wonderful privilege we share to have libraries in general. Although I cannot help but dwell in the magical world of books. 
If you describe a library without telling anyone exactly what you're talking about. Well I mean to say, without calling it a library at all. It sounds like a whimsical vacation. 

I felt at ease in the silence and still of the peace. I opened the tiny door and I looked at the pictures and I flipped the tiny world over. I read the description of the universe that it hid. Then I noticed other worlds and I had to decide which place that I would visit first. 
I was safe from the noise and I had the best adventures inside of my own head.

I am grateful for libraries. In some countries, they do not have those places or it's illegal to even read.
It is hard to imagine a place that shames you for thinking for yourself in general or condemns their own people for living.
Then again, the country that I live in thinks it should corner me for thinking of the possiblity of what ifs while they ask me personal questions for the purpose of making my life impossible.

" My wars are laid away in books.  "- Emily Dickinson