Comments on: on first looking into the Darien Statements

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:28 +0000

Oh, this is beautiful! I thoroughly agree with your distinction between running a library and thinking about The Library, but drawing it all into the Keats sonnet is just fantastic, in both the literal and the colloquial senses.

And if I can give half as good an education to my son as your mom gave to you, I’ll count my parenting a success.

By: Judith

Judith — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:21:29 +0000

Oh, my, the things I did to your education. And don’t regret any of them. Nor, after a few years/decades, do you, I hope.
Remember the union label…
love, Mom
PS, Cindi, I followed your link. What you guys are saying about openness sounds rather like what some of us are saying about church. I’ve been reading Sarah Miles, Take This Bread.

By: Cindi Trainor

Cindi Trainor — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:01:29 +0000

This is a really amazing and moving post, Laura. Thank you. Can I borrow your mom sometime?

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:28:04 +0000

*Wowza* Thank you. This explains some things that I hadn’t even thought about.

I think you are right about the need to stand with compatriots and stare at the Pacific. For me, the process of thinking and talking and considering the issues was much, much, much more important than what we came up with….

I hope that even people who disagree with everything we said will start thinking about how they would have explained it differently. What is it that all librarians have in common – and are we somehow working together for something larger than just throughput in our buildings?

I think I have developed an intellectual crush on your mum

By: Martha Hardy

Martha Hardy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:00:29 +0000

Oh, that is lovely. I agree, we need something on which to set our sights.

By: Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:49:36 +0000

Phenomenally said. Yours is the best reaction that I have seen to these.