I know not from whence it came;
it did not arrive from a soft caressing voice, but it did
come.
I was there with Dick. I was there with Jane. Oh how I loved
to see Spot run. Soon my reading skills developed to liking Ham, with Green
Eggs.
In a backyard I flew into Space with Three Boys
in a homemade rocket ship; both George and I were Curious at what great adventures were possible with a library
card.
Outside unsupervised on those warm summer nights
the eyes of my ten year old self looked up at the stars and wondered what
adventures were possible out there. Four years later I was looking at points of
light through my first refractor telescope. My library card soon discovered the entire
shelf of the 520 section of the Dewey Decimal System in Junior High. What did it matter if it was ‘above my head’… I was reading!
High School introduced me to creative writing, but alas, going to 10 different schools in 12 years, it is sentence structure that is my bane. Then came the Haflings, Nazgul, and the One Ring: I was hooked!
College led me to a Bachelor of Science in English, oh yes,
the infamous Liberal Arts degree 30 years ago.
Since I was first able to get a library card, I have always had one.
Since I was first able to get a library card, I have always had one.
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I have always enjoyed reading to myself
