Hello world. Today is filled with amazing God given opportunities. Dont you just feel it? Opportunities to turn a challenge into victory; opportunities to make a positive difference in someones life; opportunities to grow. I love the expression "growing old". How wonderful is it not that we can grow while we age. Yesterday I came across a book that is nearly 100 years old. I loved the "old" smell of it. Rcently I came across the fragile paper fragments of a letter written by my late dad over 60 years ago. Again I loved the "oldness" of it. Technology amazes me but I feel a sense of sorrow that future generations that follow from my lineage will never know the smell of an old book or listen with pure joy to the rustling of the turning pages of a great novel. They will not know the joy and intrigue that I experienced when I found my late dad's old letters to his family. Email and blogging is great but it is distant and lacks the emotion that comes when pen gets put to paper and even better when that hand written paper is discovered decades later. I hope we dont move so far technologically that we lose the sense and smell of old paper.
Thank you for sharing in this blog post. It is true and fortunately technology can never replace books and the experience of smelling and feeling the paper in your hands. So it is important that we keep the books alive and encourage our youth to continue to read and use them. And not just use them for door stoppers:-)
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