Kia ora koutou,
Miriam (My Web Workshop) has created this new look on WednesdayBusk and all the photos of flowers et al are from my wee garden. Its amazing how when you look at say, a flower, isolated from its surroundings how much more detail you see. I guess its the same with anything. You see crowd of kids playing in the school playground and then one isolates itself from its mates and runs towards you smiling and shouting Renée and you see the happy excited face of a particular child.
Next door in Nga PuraPura the tui and other birds are busy among the harakeke and yesterday a small bird flew straight into the ranch slider with a huge whack sound. I went to the window and it was on the path, having a think, then it got up, took a couple of steps, then flew away wondering what the hell had happened, I suppose.
I was very impressed with the wonderful Waiting Room (Dunedin) idea of Lilliput Libraries (a project which you can look up online). There is this letter-box shaped library, which, sits by your letter-box or somewhere people will be passing, and you put books in it for people just to take and read, then return and get another one and maybe leave one of their own they want to share. And if they don’t return them for a while that’s okay too. The booksin the Lilliput Libraries all over Dunedin are there for anyone who wants to walk, bike or park nearby, and grab one.
When I lived in Wellington people left books on seats at bus-stops or parks and anyone could take them. It was lovely getting to a bus-stop and finding a book on the seat and I got into the habit of sticking a book in my bag to leave on a seat somewhere.. I don’t know if its still done in Wellington but hope it is.
There’s something deeply satisfying about passing on a book that’s really special to me. Has to be a book I enjoyed of course because when I give a book or any other gift to someone it should mean something to me. To give away something you no longer want or have never liked is nothing, but when you give away a book you loved it means so much more. When you or I give someone a book (or anything else) we enjoyed that’s a real handing on of something special. Reading is such a living pleasure and giving someone else the opportunity to experience that same pleasure in that same book is a true gift.
So I think I’ll get a letter-box or something that looks like a letter-box and stick a sign on it, put a couple of books in it and see what happens? What do you reckon?
