Every Wednesday I spend a few hours volunteering at my local library.
This is my all-time favorite volunteer activity -- shelving books,
recovering books, moving books. I even get to push one of those library carts around like a big shot.
Recently the head librarian asked me to take on a special project (!!).
Mr. Worthy, a daily library patron I've never met, leaves little slips
of paper with quotations he's found in books he's reading. The
librarians, not knowing exactly what to do with all these slips of
paper, have kept them in an envelope waiting for an idea to emerge. Now I
have the slips of paper and I'm typing them up, cutting them into
strips, and they'll be folded and placed in a basket so other patrons
can pick one up as they leave the library. Sort of like fortune cookies
without the cookie.
When I'm working on this project, I always think of my good friend San Francisco Margo. She makes adorable book marks and sends me a supply every couple of years. She often uses old Christmas cards or other greeting cards to find a nice image. Then she laminates the pithy quotation on the back and viola! a sweet bookmark. They are well used in this house.
When
you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you
criticize them you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
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