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A 9-year old boy opened a 'free library' on his front lawn. (A genuinely sweet and innocent idea) However 'The City', was not amused.
www.thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451818/9yo-boy-little-library/
(I have to add that a lot of the 'comments' at the end of the article are pretty cool and one of them in particular, about 'easily attaching the structure to the house', was spot-on! It's almost as though The City Fathers are being supported by The Video-Game Industry)
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A 9-year old boy opened a 'free library' on his front lawn. (A genuinely sweet and innocent idea) However 'The City', was not amused.
Such a shame; that kid's library had the complete published works of Jeff Bond and microfilm copies of all his liner notes, too. Damn.
Whoa! Is it still open??!
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Jun 25, 2014 - 9:05 AM
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dan the man
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I always felt we over glorified the reader, not the person who really experiences life first hand and then in WISDOM maybe writes about it.I did in my life so far, a share of all. Reading, experiencing and writing. But in a pure sense, a reader will always be tampering into someone else's brain, unlike seeing a first hand truth through an experience.Be it what my father said when I was younger, play ball , don't watch it, you can later when you can't play it.Don't spend hours reading a book about Fenway park and Boston, spend your hours going there. Learn a truth, not somebody else's mind. As I have done myself of course, reading can be good and pleasurable but[may I also say with my own life, make movies not only watch them - learn] it can be overdone to a point where a friend of mine, spent his whole life in a room reading and nothing much else and probably knew just so much about the REAL world.Half the things he read probably was false anyway, which is a great point.
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Jun 25, 2014 - 9:07 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I always felt we over glorified the reader, not the person who really experiences life first hand and then in WISDOM maybe writes about it.I did in my life so far, a share of all. Reading, experiencing and writing. But in a pure sense, a reader will always be tampering into someone else's brain, unlike seeing a first hand truth through an experience.Be it what my father said when I was younger, play ball , don't watch it, you can later when you can't play it.Don't spend hours reading a book about Fenway park and Boston, spend your hours going there. Learn a truth, not somebody else's mind. As I have done myself of course, reading can be good and pleasurable but[may I also say with my own life, make movies not only watch them - learn] it can be overdone to a point where a friend of mine, spent his whole life in a room reading and nothing much else and probably knew just so much about the REAL world.Half the things he read probably was false anyway, which is a great point.
Yeah, don't post about a composer's birthday every day...go to his house and help him blow out the candles on the cake!
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I always felt we over glorified the reader, not the person who really experiences life first hand and then in WISDOM maybe writes about it.I did in my life so far, a share of all. Reading, experiencing and writing. But in a pure sense, a reader will always be tampering into someone else's brain, unlike seeing a first hand truth through an experience.Be it what my father said when I was younger, play ball , don't watch it, you can later when you can't play it.Don't spend hours reading a book about Fenway park and Boston, spend your hours going there. Learn a truth, not somebody else's mind. As I have done myself of course, reading can be good and pleasurable but[may I also say with my own life, make movies not only watch them - learn] it can be overdone to a point where a friend of mine, spent his whole life in a room reading and nothing much else and probably knew just so much about the REAL world.Half the things he read probably was false anyway, which is a great point.
Yeah, don't post about a composer's birthday every day...go to his house and help him blow out the candles on the cake!
...(I'm still laughing!), but, YOU SIR WIN THE STUFFED PANDA BEAR FOR TODAY'S BEST LINE!
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I don't have Facebook but if anyone here cares to contact this little-guy on it, I'd be interested to hear how he's faring with the city and / or, his supporters. Thank you!
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Yeah, don't post about a composer's birthday every day...go to his house and help him blow out the candles on the cake!
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Jun 25, 2014 - 7:02 PM
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dan the man
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Seriously guys, if I was to put together all the hours of my life and then were ask what do you regret with the time you spent on earth, limited as it is. I would and I am sure many others would subtract some of those books one read for hours and hours and see a town, state country, I never saw, See a relative or a love one who has left us young or old and spend more time with them. Experience the REAL WORLD more, but maybe for some even in serious intent it would be all a joke around here. anyway. To write is to lead, to read is to be led. To experience is to see truth which can lead to the greatest thing of all, wisdom.of course there are many things you can only read about like history, but sometimes a tongue in cheek might help.THOMAS-,by the way don't try to grow a brain, but you made a good remark, I have seen it all, no but more then most, maybe.
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There's so much that could be said in response to your philosophy, Dan, but I'll just submit this one thought: Don't you know that many leaders were first inspired to lead by something they read?
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Jun 25, 2014 - 11:25 PM
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dan the man
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I am not at all condemning the general principle of reading at all. It's just that in life one could put a honest viewpoint on degrees of some of our interest. Like anything we do in life there could be a danger to obsession to one act causing a hunger or lack of other vital part of our lives. of course one could write a large book of pro's and con's on the issue . I remember the years spending time in the large libraries of Manhattan, doing research, reading etc. Enjoyable, educational, but then as I look at some other people who I knew spend most of their waking lives there I would say to myself. I can't do that, there is a big world out there, I wouldn't want to be marry to books. It is the afterthought of spending too much time with one's head in a book and saying. Am I wasting my precious moments away and if this reading does not concern my personal education[school, career advancement or basic info for practical used in life] was this worth giving up so much of my life to other people's thoughts of their written words-Maybe fiction reading is safer and better then so called facts. there once was a great statement-over half of the problems in this world is cause by mistaking the written word with facts. That is a heavy indictment against books and reading, not fiction reading but so called info that they say are facts but have been twisted into lies. Again so there is no misunderstanding here and I would be a hypocrite, because I like many have spent time reading in my life, I feel we should experience more first hand info then second hand info from other peoples desires. There is intelligence in reading but wisdom comes from experience
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