Reading for a lifetime

I have had the good fortune to live on multiple continents and have had to endure the challenge and the successes of those opportunities. What a wonder it was to me as a young child to find that library books were available everywhere I lived. What a wonder it was to comprehend that where library books were available there would also be curiosity, kindness, peace (shh, its the library). Today the library is so much more than books, the range of media, learning and socialization that libraries afford is peerless in that all are welcome. I can learn a foreign language and I can read it too and grow my awareness that the differences that exist in the world are like colors that fills an artist work. They bring texture, variety and inspire our imaginations. Libraries make content available to all without concern for economic status, social status, skin color and, even, yes language. I am in awe and very grateful that this wonderful resource continues to be treasured and protected.