A Trip to the Library

When I was young, I used to love to go to the library.  Of course, we lived within walking distance and the librarians all knew me.  in the summer time, I even went to the library barefoot, although that was probably a social "no-no."

For a large part of my adult life, I have made a weekly trip to the library, as much to browse as to select books to read. Sometimes, the libraries in my community have presentations, and even it they did not sound like something I was interested in, I attended, to support the library, and I would say 95% of the time I enjoyed the presentation.  

There have been times when I have not accessed the library. The reasons don't matter. Except I wiil say most recently, I had purchased some books, and wanted to finish them before I checked books out from the library. This past week, when I went to the library, I took my time to browse around, check the card catalogues (on computer) and look at the displays.   In the past several years, I have not taken the opportunity to do so on every weekly trip to the library.   More often than not, i went to the library with a book or books in mind, found them, checked them out and left.  It was like reconnecting with an old friend, to just enjoy spending time browsing in the library.