LIBRARIES AND MY LOVE FOR READING

If you are wondering why these pictures exist here, it's because they live at my library!

For about 6 months, I was obsessed with

wanting a Kindle II.

You know those new computer books

that Amazon sells,

It is the size of a book as flat as a pancake,

you can download books wherever you are

in seconds and read to your hearts content.

Jesi and I drooled over this contraption for

months because we both like to read and

how awesome this would be to just drop it

in your pure and no matter where you are you

could choose a book, download it and read.

I am not one to just go out and buy things

I don't need unless I have the cash or

I save for it.

So I began budgeting my spending money

so that in a few months I could purchase this

baby, Kindle.

Just when I almost had my 300 bucks saved

I walked into my local library for some

free reading material.

I smelled one of my favorite smells,

the aroma of old books.

I stopped and chatted with the girls

who work at my library, caught up on

their and my lives while whispering, of course.

(It is a library, you must be quiet)

I preceded into the aisles of my favorite books

The new releases, the true crime,

the biographies.

I began reading the inner covers of some that

interested me and getting excited about the

story that laid in my hands.

I remembered our local library as a child,

it was close enough to walk to in Golden Meadow and

Lord knows I went there often in the summer when

it was safe for little girls to walk the street of Golden Meadow.

I remember Mrs. Bessie with her beehive hairdo who

always knew our favorite types of books and

lead me in the right direction.

I was an avid reader who joined the summer

reading program each summer and usually

won the award for the most books read.

I would walk back home with 10 books

(that was the limit back then)

Knowing that in my arms I carried

the world that I would never know except in books.

Far off places, lives of others,

fables to live by...

Oh the good memories I have.

Then when Roddie and Jesi came along

I turned them on to the libraries of their childhood

at early ages.

We were not rich and it was a free place for us to

hang out and get some quality time in.

We would go to story hour and I would sit on the

floor with one of my rugrats in my lap.

I could smell their hair as they listened intently

to the reader or the actor perform

their favorite books.

They always joined the summer reading club

and they too were often the winner of the

MOST BOOKS READ

group.

As I remembered all of this I realized

that if all the world got Kindles

what would happen to all these

buildings, people, and books

that we call our local library.

Would a part of the world that is still

free fade away?

What would happen to opening up a book

and having the scent of it

waft through your nose.

Oh, no I cannot be a participant in this.

I and all of us must support our local

libraries. Take your children, take yourself,

go often.

There are DVD's now and oh so much more

all still free!!!

So no Kindle for old Aunt LIl,

no, no, no!

For me, I will continue to use

my little library and always have a ton

of books at my house with return dates on them.

What did I do with the money I save?

...Well, bought Cricut cartridges, of course!