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A #bookstagram account featuring Mia’s favorite books from the Library! 📚 Every book posted is available for checkout. 📖

“After love / has reached the speed of light/ it i

“After love / has reached the speed of light/ it is invisible again”

It is powerful enough that this book speaks on genocide. But it’s more than an artifact of witness. There is grace here. Each line wants to be held and thought about awhile. I plan to do just that.

#fadyjoudah #palestinianpoet

“By being fully present and receptive to an experi

“By being fully present and receptive to an experience so different from anything that I had been raised to understand, my personal and professional life was changed. I was transformed.”

After reading this, I developed an intense desire for India. I wound up studying religions in college, including Hinduism. And when I was 20, I was fortunate enough to visit India. On the last day of my homestay, my host mother took me to Meenakshi Temple for darshan with Meenakshi herself. I remember standing barefoot on the warm stones, the bright saris of the other worshippers, my host mother’s arm in mine. I will always treasure this special experience.

This book is by a Westerner and non-Hindu. I’ve since learned directly from Indians who practice the religion. But as an entry point, this is perfect. For am I not also a Westerner and non-Hindu? And as a foreigner, I too have witnessed the sacred and let it touch me. Now, I know exactly what he means. India has transformed me.

I took these photos in 2010: Meenakshi Temple, in Madurai. And my host mother’s kolam.

#india

“For neither stone nor wood nor flinty arrow -poin

“For neither stone nor wood nor flinty arrow -point nor barb of iron would break the promise which each had given. Balder was safe with them, just as if he were bewitched.”

One winter, I found this book on the shelf. Worn, mysterious, with a beautifully embossed cover. I loved it because it looked like it could have come out of a myth! I knew all about Greek mythology, but this was my introduction to the northern lands. Thumbing through this book now, I’m struck by how the myth unfolds as one continuous narrative. From the first chapter, “The Beginning of Things,” to the end, “Loki’s Punishment.” (Was Ragnarök considered too brutal for children?) I remember that I loved Balder. However, it was really the whole experience of finding this book that I loved.

This has not circulated in a long time, but I keep it in our stacks. I want others to discover it and enjoy it. Libraries are many things. Originally for me they were places where the line between real and fantasy can blend. The book as an object of magic.

#norsemythology #inthedaysofgiants

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