I got a Seattle Public Library card today! BEST-DAY-EVER!
Not because this library is particularly stupendous (it kind of smells like your gym shoes meeting a cup of tea in a musky basement), or because I was able to find any enlightenment on all the mysteries of this confounded collaboration of planets that revolve around a perpetually flaming rock.....
But because of my collection! : )
I once decided that I wanted to get a library card from all 50 states. This way, if I ever have to run away from life, I can rest assured that I have 90 free minutes of internet in each state a day, can read People Magazine each week, and can learn Arabic through book, CD, book-on-tape, OR dvd. Yes, the world is a horizon of options when you have a library card.
However, all the kind people with whom I shared this lifelong dream of library card acquisition kindly kicked my brain into the acknowledgment that, in order to get a library card, you have to live in that state.
But Ha! I now have four library cards. Thank you Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, and now Seattle, for taking me under your wing of free knowledge. I walk in the doors of your institutions and remember everything I don't know. And realize all I want to learn. For this I shall be eternally grateful.
There was a very nice, albeit confused, old man I got to meet at the library. I'll write about him later.
3 comments:
Seattle is not a state. :) But I think you're cool. Did you try to get one in SC while you were there?
i have once exactly like the hennepin one you have!! love the collection, and i'm sad glad ur making a blog :) it makes me smile
Michelle and I got library cards the first week we were in Spokane. And at my job at Eastern Washington University, I was bemoaning the fact that I don't have time to go to the library . . . I meant the REAL library just around the corner from Didier's. Then it occurred to me that I do work at a university, and it has a library too. With great books. Even fiction! So I'm back to reading again.
David Sedaris: Squirrel seeks Chipmunk. (I think Eric would like it too.)
I like your blog.
Peggy
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