Off to the Library...

The Library...a wonderful place indeed. Awaiting you is a world filled with stories telling about intrigue, love, happiness, food, friendship, and more.

On every shelf is a tidbit of information or a nuance that will stay with you for a lifetime.

With every book you take from the shelf and open, you smell the use permeating your senses. Almost druglike, an aura surrounds you evoking you to take those words and cuddle into a chair to read for hours.

The silence, like a chapel, reverent and holy to the essence of reading.

The ladies sitting behind the desks who are eager to help you find the name of a book even if you only have the first initial of the author's name.

The feeling of holding a stack of books, probably too big to read before the return date, but you're sure you are up to the challenge and you walk to the desk to take on the quest.

Handing over your card and hearing the thunk as the book passes over the machine. Knowing that now it is yours.

Smiling as you receive your printed list of books you endeavor to add them to your side table, as least for the next couple of weeks.

All this...for free.