“I am fascinated by the idea that you can borrow books for free and that these books will pass through many hands before reaching you.”*
The library is a real gift and a place for gifts to move around for everyone regardless of where they are from or who they are. When someone fails to return a book and is fined, this feels doubly wrong.
It doesn’t have to be a library; we need all kinds of open, encouraging, and creative spaces. #libraryofawesome happens to be a concept I’m exploring with a number of friends: a place where anyone can become all they can be, doing all they can do to bring their art, their contribution into the world.
‘All being can correctly and rightly be spoken of with one voice (univocity) … . What I am and you also are, and so is the world.’**
(*Photographer Doreen Kennedy, quoted in Laura Damon-Moore and Erinn Batykefer’s The Artist’s Library.)
(**From Richard Rohr’s Eager to Love.)
