The first of December!

Yikes…the countdown begins. Not that we’re going to get all panicky about that right? We’re just going to breathe and take each day as it comes.

Everyone. All together now. Breathe In. Breathe Out. Repeat just like the shampoo directions. Life feels much easier that way, non?

I promise to concentrate on nice slow breathing while walking to the Vancouver Public Library to return a big pile of magazines and a copy of that amazing book, Olive Kitteridge. (I couldn’t find my paperback copy so the library was there to rescue me when I wanted to reread it last week).

I have another book waiting for me that I requested a while back…The Art of Fielding. It comes highly recommended by by Gwen Morrison, my friend and fellow Canadian (though currently living just a little south of the border in Georgia 🙂

I am looking forward to my walk. It’s a gorgeous crisp winter day out there. The clouds have that textured pebbly appearance that reminds me of a hard-packed sand beach after the tide has gone out; a thing to behold; this lovely beach of a sky.

But more interesting to me now is the fact that I just wrote that previous sentence with two semi-colons. Can you do that? I guess I just did.

But back to that library…aren’t they just the best invention…ever?

I love feeling the buzz of brains when I enter the space. I love seeing young kids hunched over books as they trace each word with a finger, or watching an old woman holding a big book like she’s holding a grandchild, or a young student running his fingers along a shelf of spines; it’s a light-and-sentence-filled space enjoyed by new Canadians and old.

It’s just a big ol’ church where we all are welcome to worship the word.