a glowing screen, three windows

i'm at the library. i really like this place. it such a good day when i can walk to the library, look around, read a few things, then find a comfortable, out of the way chair, and sink into a book. a lot of people use this place. i don't know of another place like this, where you can just sit, if you like. for hours. without buying something. i've heard some stories of library employees waking individuals up who have fallen asleep in a chair. i don't know if this is true. if it is, it's a ridiculous thing and to be criticized. other than that potentiality, i really like the library. except that i have heard that some folks have been harrasssed outside in the library park; people being told they can't hang out there. of course, a family having a picnic in the library park is not told this but a couple of people with backpacks and who might look like they don't own a house and two cars become undesirables (actually, it's probably not this broad--houseless, homeless, folks are the people who have been deliberately targeted in the past). but these criticisms are not inherently a part of libraries. instead, they relate to specific situations--a particular library, particular employees. i can't think of much else that is present in a state-level society, that comes out of the state, that i really like that much. it actually does embrace a level of sharing, a respect of differences, is not focused on capitalism. and embraces concepts that involve ideas like learning, growing, sharing perspectives.

p.s. not that libraries need come out of the state. they can be quite independent of such things, and sometimes are.