Here is a gift for you.
Here the past lives on and future lives are born.
Here champion,
here bread and butter,
here we push back darkness.
Here books patiently wait for you to lay your bright and beautiful eyes on them.
Here their longing fills a box—coffin or shipping crate.
Here thousands of pages are packed tightly, compressed, without oxygen, smothered symbols.
Here a graveyard of words, each book a headstone.
Here the time of reading is always upon us.
Here were follow the plow of the typewriter laying down a furrow to fill with seeds.
Here is distance and nearness, repetition and variation, boxed and unboxed, bound and unbound.
Here’s free. Also freedom. Also gift. Also vision. Front-yard philanthropy.
Here tradition, trunks of trees, tongues.
Here there is never night, always stars.
Here possibility.
The App
Frances Daniel of Clayton, Georgia uses the Little Free Library Mobile App when she travels. She reminded me about it, and I rushed over to add it to the post.
I use the Little Free Library app whenever we go on vacation or just go to a nearby town. Doing so has become a part of my travel routine! Soon I will travel to Beaufort, SC, for a first visit. I've already packed a bag of books to drop off at as many Little Free Libraries as I can visit. I find that few people know of these treasures, so I'm grateful that you shared about them.
A Free Book
If you operate a Little Free Library, say the word and I’ll send you a copy of my second book, Wild Card Quilt, to slide into it. My dad stockpiled some boxes of the hardback back when they came out, and I inherited those when he died. I can’t think of a better placement for them than a Little Free Library. DM me your address.
A Painting & a Link
My husband, Raven Waters, is a painter. When I was putting this photo essay together, I asked him if he had any photos of Little Free Libraries. “No, but I have a painting,” he said.
And something few people know yet. Raven has just started a Substack about art for people like us, called “The Art Sharps.” You don’t have to be an artist to enjoy his posts. He talks about how having art around you increases your creativity, wellbeing, and sense of enjoyment in life.
Here’s a link if you want to check it out.
Here the time of reading is always upon us.
Here I’d ...... breath.
Thank you!!!! I hope you can the library some day. We just got the 13 volumes John Burroughs signed and numbered collection. A donation I sought