Enshrined longings

Over the last week I've donated many books to the Brooklyn Public Library. They were no longer an active part of my life, so this seemed the time to let them go. (Yes, I know, part of the point of a book is that it persists, a gift from one time to all future times, waiting patiently on the shelf until it can again become an active part of somone's life...) Anyway it felt good to bring them to this great temple of civic life.