Considering I live in a world of quirky individuals (thanks to a life in a public library), a love of learning, and the need to share, what better way to do this than here. Yeah, there will be eye rollers, but hey, isn't this the beauty of technology? Never getting published, yet read by few. Or many..who knows.
Which brings me to Monday. A rainy one. Which has brought out the regulars to the library. Case in point. He walks to the library every day around the same time. Middle aged, brisk walker. Always dressed for the weather. Today is has donned bathing trunks, yellow slicker, complete with duck tape to hold it together, Morton's fisherman rain hat, latex gloves, plasitc grocery bags on his feet, and a rope around his waist to tie gallon milk jugs to when he makes his return trip home. Spends his time at our computers-rolling from one computer to the information desk so there is no need to walk. As quick as he arrives, he vanishes, leaving the slight pungent odor of a basement.
Libraries are the epitamy of diversity. Where else can you see the homeless, the rich, the young, the elderly, the physically challenged, the mentally challenged all under the same roof? Well, maybe the MVA, but is by far much more pleasant.
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