Every Book Has Its Reader

May 29, 2005

Public libraries for Nepal. A need, plus a well-thought, generous, practical, sustainable solution.

Like kids in the proverbial candy store, Jomson's young people flooded the reading room the instant the doors opened, pulling books from the shelves, cooing over the educational toys, spinning the globe.

But there was not pandemonium. The children carefully and lovingly handed each book to the next set of waiting hands.

Katmandu has them. Now rural children do, too.

Via mirabilis

Dr. Neubauer is spreading not only the joy of reading, but inspiration to find our own READ-like undertaking. Good will, means, and ingenuity. We all possess some measure of all three, to combine, apply, and offer.

Update:
Here's someone's offering. His eyes were open, his heart was touched. He is a bicyclist of some prowess. It's a good enough story to catch our attention. So he's off. Yesterday.

We'd like to think the unknown slave-saints who finished their sufferings in the Gulags will keep an eye on him, and  bring him safely home.

Via Done With Mirrors

Comments

[Richard Lawrence Cohen]

It's been said that the public library saves as many lives as the fire department. I believe it.

[dilys]

Funny, Richard, you read my mind. I was thinking something very similar.