A library card is a free key to more knowledge than any billionaire had a hundred years ago.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Access to knowledge used to be a function of money and location. What is now available to anybody with a library card, at no cost, was out of reach of very wealthy people not long ago, and the size of that shift is easy to miss because it happened before you arrived. The building is unglamorous. What is inside it is not.
Get the card if you do not have one, and use it for something specific. One subject you have been curious about, three books, no obligation to finish them. Free is only worth anything if somebody walks in.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What would you look up first with a free library card?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- A crowded calendar is a problem that comes from having choices. Somewhere, someone would trade for your stress.
- Somebody sat next to you sounding out “c-a-t” a hundred times so you could read this sentence in one second.
- Upgrading everything is a treadmill with a price tag. “Enough” is the only model that doesn’t release a newer version.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.