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The Dwindling of Third Spaces

Third spaces are neutral, informal spaces outside of the home that foster connection and community. If the first space is the home, the second space is work or school, the third space can be any/many things – a library included. Within the confines of capitalist culture, we have dwindling third spaces, or worse – needing to pay to access third spaces. The library stands as a test against that.

There is a new library being built in my neighborhood, Casa De Oro, and I am SO excited to see the construction. I feel like I will make more use of my neighborhood library, seeing as I always went to other neighborhoods as they had more books, more seating, and more amenities.

Books are important. Being literate is important. Storytelling is such a core human experience – the more spaces we have that foster that connection and communication is paramount to who we are as human beings.

I love reading books on my tablet! Thank you for this great resource!

I love reading books on my tablet! Thank you for this great resource

Childhood memories

I was a very, very avid reader as a child. Every week I would go to the nearest library or, if I was close enough at the time, one of the other San Diego libraries and grab a stack of books to take home with me. I would spend the next week reading each of those books until I was all finished and ready to return them the next week for a new stack of books. To put it simply, I read a lot of books growing up.But there is no way I could have read nearly as much without…