The Best Moments in Reading...

Truth….

Boundless and Infinite….

I want to live simply.

I want to sit by the window when

it rains and read books I'll

never be tested on.

I want to paint because I want to,

not because I've got something to prove.

I want to listen to my body,

fall asleep when the moon is high

and wake up slowly,

with no place to rush off to.

I want not to be governed by money

or clocks or any of the artificial

restraints that humanity

imposes on itself. I just want to be,

boundless and infinite.

Both this image and this quote are from

Facebook so I don't know who to

attribute either of them to but I think they

 are both awesome! When I read this 

quote I realized that I'm pretty

much there….and very blessed to be

able to say this. And the image…well

it just seemed to be representative of

my life….blessed….

blessed indeed…. 

my drug of choice

my mom was a voracious reader in her later years........i couldn't keep her in books......but i never remember her reading during my younger years.....and she certainly was never a mother that read to her children. i grew up in the country....serious country. we had a school that taught all twelve grades in the same building (one that we walked to.....probably close to two miles one way!), a gas station/grocery store combination, and a fish camp. that was the extent of our community.......no fast food.....no library. that being the case...i wasn't turned on to books until i spent the weekend with a friend when i was maybe eight or nine years old. her mother took us to the library to check out books and it was love at first sight! i was hooked.......beverly cleary.........walter farley.......i became our school library's biggest fan. from that day i have always read.........anything..........cereal boxes! shampoo labels! i don't care.....i've got to read. if i had the money i've spent on books and magazines...............well....i'd be a rich woman! i can spend hours in a bookstore......lost in the heady smell of new books.......or a library........i never come out empty handed. i'm ashamed to even admit how many magazines i subscribe to. reading is my drug of choice..... add a cup of joe and a little something sweet to nibble ............heaven! reading gives me the same kind of high i experience when working in my art studio...or the garden.........if interrupted it takes a few seconds to clear my head enough to be in the moment. i've tried listening to books on tape but somehow for me it's just not the same. my eyesight has degraded significantly this past year.........i can't imagine a world without books.....i sure hope it never comes to that point. in the mean time i'll feed my habit as often as i can. i can't even remember the lady's name that got me those first books.......but i thank her with my whole heart!