I am struck by how much of my thinking and doing is because of the interactions that children and adults bring into my library work and just when I begin to feel the empty rattle of my mind knocking against the fact that it is useless in a social distanced world, I receive a present.
The present includes a hand made book with a complete story whose topics range from an interest in planes to business take-overs, kingdoms and gifts and things. A wide ranging story. I am reminded that a physical distance hardly means a mental distance.
The note, says the library and I are loved.
The story connects us enough that I have browsed and selected books on airplanes to share back with my young gifter and the loneliness of the library was invaded with a presence. In hundreds of homes in Goa, we know that the act of reading is being kept alive and I feel less alone and more connected than ever !