READ AWAY: DAY ONE HUNDRED FIVE WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?

Our world has such a wealth of knowledge to absorb. Knowledge that stretches across lands, through libraries, over prairies, into classrooms, under the sea, and into our flowing brains that allow us to hope, believe, and share its beauty, its reality, and promise. There is so much joy in the discovery of the unknown once realized. The simple things in life can go such a long way. They can be ingrained for a lifetime or forgotten overnight, but the moment you are given a feeling of wonderful smiling, head shaking, and the owness of "NO WAY" abundance then you GOT IT. Yes you have something within you that is NEW, or remembered, and who knows how you will then move onward. Of course all these discoveries aren't always positive ones people. The realization of he did that, or she couldn't have said that, could bring heartache and shock, but sometimes the things you read aren't  always REAL. The art of reading, whatever it may be, from a newspaper, magazine, comic book, or a dusty hard back you checked out of the local library, the power of the word on paper paints a picture through the writer's creativity and allows the reader to be taken to places that he/she could only imagine going. There are times that you may have visited  that fountain in Rome or monument in DC that the writer is mentioning, and you can go there with the characters and view the page differently, or maybe you have never left you own neighborhood and through books are given a whole NEW WORLD of opportunity and wonder. There is so much beauty and possibility through reading. I always have an easier time getting through books that focus on topics of my passions; music, sports, film, mysterious/unknown, biographies, travel, etc....So get out there and indulge yourself, read out loud to improve your speech or work through your voices, create a quiet place inside or out and get lost within a long loving novel. I understand that our technology has changed and there are e-books and audio books, what ever it takes educate yourself, workout your brain and eyes, and fill your mind with goodness that will assist your cause in allowing you to lead a more productive path. I know I don't read enough especially the classics (especially English Lit),poetry, and Greek Mythology, since on Jeopardy I was fail those categories. I know reading gives us headaches, and some are forced to do it for school or to participate in your local book clubs, but discover an author, topic, time period, or genre, and have some fun. Just like flossing you can never OVERREAD- rvb