Thursday Thoughts...

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” 

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

As the year draws to a close, and we reflect on so many things, my ponderings cycle back around to books.

And libraries, but also to learning and to minds that investigate, explore and enquire. 

For I imagine these are the minds Ms Woolf has in mind.  It seems to me that learning through reading and exploring the world gives us breadth, gives us empathy and gives us understanding.  The capacity to think for ourselves, to consider and weigh differences and information that runs counter to our understanding holds us in good stead; and so much of that capacity comes from reading. And books.

As we face whatever 2021 has in store for us, and no doubt there will be more of what we are facing and have faced, we hope there will also be good news, progress, healing, improvement and change. 

To all my blogging friends and reading friends, best wishes as the new year dawns. Be safe, be well and go well.

Detail, Bet Low "In the Hoy Hills, Orkney"