I Tripped At The World!

Ok, strange title I know!  But it will become clear.

I have come back to a love of mine that I had put aside for a few years.  Reading.  If you know me, you know I love books.  I always have and I have tons of them and have read almost every one.

I finally went to the library in this town I have been in for a few years.  I had passed it many times and said one day, one day...  I finally did and it is not a huge library, small really, but it is a very busy place.  It doesn't have all the books I am looking for but it has many.  In the last 3 months I have read probably 20 books.  Page turners really excite me, I have to be careful though I will read at night, too late because I can't put it down.  I should be a critic.  Oh wait, I think I am!

Everybody has heard that reading books takes you places, let's you experience the writer's adventures.  It is so true, it broadens the mind.  Actually opens you up for ideas and possibilities that you would not have thought of before.

I have this thing, I don't just want to read them I want to own them but I have really put this library to use.  I am reading books I haven't read yet, some that I had read before a long time ago and I love it.

This library has many things to offer.  I take my niece as often as I can, she is a tween and broadening the mind early is important to me so I encourage her to expand her world.  Reading is a great way to do that.  This is all of course for the 5 minutes she is not on her iPod!

In the lobby there is a huge world globe that slowly circles around for your viewing pleasure.  It is about 6 feet tall fixed to a revolving base.  This all sits in an area filled with large blue glass looking rocks surrounded by a one foot tall ledge, just right for stepping up on it to see higher places on the globe, which I have of course.

With my niece one day, we decided to look at places on the globe that coincided with a couple of current events in the news lately.  Well remember my klutz stories??? Not as bad as though but yeah, toe of sandal caught the edge of that ledge just before I could secure my step up and look position!

Good grief!  I just laughed out loud thinking of the most important piece of this story, I am with a tween and embarrassment of adults is always lying just below the surface with them!  So there you have it, not a total crash and burn as it could have been but just enough to have my knee hit the top of the ledge, painful, and of course my hands, without pre-brain knowledge, in the blue glass looking rocks to avoid disaster.  So I did not fall down but all the same, unnatural contact was accomplished.

I recovered quickly, like are you kidding me???  But then I immediately thought and internally laughed at how my niece was feeling at that moment.  I would not have been surprised if she had walked on past like she didn't know me at all :)  But she is cool, and she thinks I am cool most of the time, we laughed together.

You know you try to be a good influence on a kid, then you go and tripped at the world!

What are you reading right now? 
I am reading
The Secret On Ararat... Fiction - Biblical Archeology
Texas Rangers History... Non Fiction, doing research on the law enforcement Rangers (4 books)
and of course the Bible... studying prophecies, Daniel and interestingly, did you know blaspheme is also called railing?  Hmmmmm.