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Sunday, October 9, 2022

A Grandfather’s Advice

Build a library

Stocked with old and new

Build with stories

And ideas true

Build it strong 

Against winter’s wrath

Build it light

To illuminate the path

Build it cool

For hot, arid days

Build it restful

To shed stressful ways



Alice and her adventures

In Wonderlands

Pooh and Tiger

Where 100 acre wood stands

Peter Rabbit’s, lost coat

And the farmer’s fence

And every story told, 

Before and since

Magic and fantasy

And fiction’s pull

Harness their wonders

Inspire your soul


 

Read each day

Also read each night

Read to learn reason

Sift wrong from right

Read of new vistas

Walk strange lands

Read of new “peoples”

Clasp new hands

Read to find

Alternate ways

Read to grow and live

And love each day

Read aloud

Read silently

Read unusual ideas

Enthusiastically

Read to grow

Read to someone

Read to learn

Read for fun



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