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Working  With  Books

4/23/2015

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I worked for three different libraries over a six year period. This is the poem of closure I wrote after it was done for a challenge with my writer group. (The Amazing Cedar) 
For further library shenanigans I recommend I Work at a Public Library 
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New books are crisp and clean. You want to hold them and make friends with them.
Dirty books are sticky and feel contaminated. If they are broken, they are recycled.
I used to hate recycling books. I kept as many as I could, because every story is sacred.

It’s Monday, I’m helping someone find the stories of a murder in 1927. I’m helping a woman find the artist of her family painting. I’m helping an old man find his favorite flamenco dancer. Someone checks out Harry Potter for the first time. Someone left their plain ticket in a biography. That book has been to Germany.

It’s Tuesday, I’m being told to ‘back off’ for asking for a library card. I’m being yelled at for asking for the patterns in a sewing book back. A man is turning his obsessive energy on me because he wants to find his kids, who don’t want to be found. I give my coat to a homeless kid, because it’s going to be 20* and he has nowhere to go. The doors close, and I wonder why warm buildings sit empty when people freeze in the street.

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Women Who Wield a Sword

4/20/2015

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This Article was originally published January 17th 2014 on my DeviantArt page. I wrote it in hopes another person (probably a woman?) would read it and find the solidarity I was looking for when I wrote it. (I'm sure it's out there, but I couldn't find it at the time. ) It has been updated and referenced for this site.  

Practice!


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The First Post

4/13/2015

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Welcome, Hi, Hello and all the good stuff. I'll be working on getting some good stuff up here. There will be art, blogs, writing bits, guests (Friends) and who knows what else. But it should be fun.  But since you are; hey! You're cool. Have an awesome day. :)
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