#reading
https://mas.to/@mostaurelius/112269853208615850 mostaurelius@mas.to - A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian
#books #library #PublicWorks #WPA #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon
SMH Bigly!!
Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
Pascual Ovalle - Dos personas en un sillón
#art #painting #peinture #Ovalle #lecture #reading #vendredilecture
https://www.espacioo.com/store/artworks/539-pascual-ovalle-dos-personas-en-un-sillon-2022/
A quotation from Herbert, George
Wo be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1146 (1651 ed.)
#quote #quotes #quotation #book #experience #ideas #input #narrow-minded #reading
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/herbert-george/11872/
Just finished reading True Virtue - The Journey of an English Buddhist Nun by Sister #AnnabelLaity who is a practitioner in #ThichNhatHanh's #PlumVillage tradition of #Buddhism. It's an auto-biographical account. Interesting to read about the early history of Plum Village and her life in general
#jews #nazi #prison #camps #artists #literature #books #reading #my book #myphoto
TEREZIN was a concentration camp 30 miles north of Prague in the Czech Republic during the World War II. It was originally a holiday resort reserved for Czech nobility. Terezín is contained within the walls of the famed fortress Theresienstadt, which was created by Emperor Joseph II of Austria in the late 18th century and named in honor of his mother, Empress Maria Theresa.
By 1940 Nazi Germany had assigned the Gestapo to turn Terezín into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. It held primarily Jews from Czechoslovakia, as well as tens of thousands of Jews deported chiefly from Germany and Austria, as well as hundreds from the Netherlands and Denmark. More than 150,000 Jews were sent there, including 15,000 children, and held there for months or years, before being sent by rail transports to their deaths at Treblinka and Auschwitz extermination camps in occupied Poland, as well as to smaller camps elsewhere. Less than 150 children survived.
English Wikipedia Article of the Day
W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia
Sadly, my first and only experience with the man was Of Human Bondage, which I would have preferred someone prying up my fingernails than having to actually finish reading that book.
But hey... that's just my very subjective viewpoint. Many of you may love the man and his art. I may be of a different opinion if my first connection with him were one of his other stories.
#Fiction #Reading #Authors #Somerset_Maugham #Biography #Wikipedia
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Saturday. January 20, 2024
Mood Of The Day
Inner Sanctum
a very private room or place.
