To heck with 🟠 🤡 's fake library. Use/support a real library. Help a child learn to read — to learn — and get a library card. The Brooklyn Public Library is still running their #BooksUnbanned initiative: bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanne…

Other libraries have joined, nationwide:
booksunbanned.com/

Information from the American Library Association on the challenges to books — calls for banning books and limiting access: ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/freque…
#LibrariesAreAwesome #Library #read

Thinking of #Egypt 🇪🇬

✨Exile & Longing for Home ✨

#read #interview, here 👇🏼

wordswithoutborders.org/dispat…

#BlueMonday #SilentSunday #tuesday #Immigration #refugees #home #love #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity #writinglife #WritingCommunity #reading #thoughts #meditation #inspiration #life #history #Egyptian #culture

I hear you, @allenstenhaus but as a #reader & #writer, I'm also pro #library .

#Wiki may help w/ basics, but light #reading is replacing (need) for deep #learning.

I recommend you #read this fine #article 'Is #google making us #stupid '

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

In this #essay the #writer argues that our capacity for deep #concentration & critical #thinking are seriously harmed by skimming we do, #online.

Don't mean to sound negative, or down on modernity, but everything has its cost...