“For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‘Here I am, read me.’ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.” ~ Maya Angelou

There were two places we walked to weekly when I was young – church and the local KCLS library.

Surrounded by the many stories, pictures, and soaring possibilities, lost in words, I flew.