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Bookcase

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We’re always learning, of course. But never so much and so easily as when we are young. Before we are cynics and stoics and before we forget the wide eyed wonder at which we once looked at the world, we are children. Embracing every connection, gaping through every peephole, trying to catch every butterfly and reading the back of every cereal box. A bookstore trip is like a quest, every book like an adventure – so much to see, so much to learn!

Here, at this bookstore on this day, the chair is taller than her legs can reach, the book is larger than her hands can comfortably hold, the lighting is dim and still she is absorbed in the book, her face an inscrutable mask of concentration. She’s going to be a reader, I predict.

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