Library

 

I can still remember, so clearly, the day my mother told me I was going with the neighbour kids to join this thing called a library.  I was very young but must have been old enough to be able to read.

I was amazed and thrilled to find that I could borrow books.

The town library at that time was up above a store on the main street of town so it couldn't have been large.  I remember when the new library in its own building opened.

I'm still a regular user of the public library and I can't imagine stopping.  

The recent closures of the Toronto Library due first to the pandemic and then the hacking incident were an unneeded reminder of just how much the library means to me.

"It Gets Better"

 

This is said a lot, is actually a "thing" that is said to comfort people, especially young people, who are being bullied.

It is true, it does get better when you're older and away from school years which is where most bullying seems to happen.  Not to minimize bullying in the workplace or relationships.

But "better" does not mean there are no consequences, no aftereffects.  

Those colour your whole life.