Like a rich cup of chocolate...

A dear friend of mine loaned me a book the other day, and I have to say this is a very special book. It's the "Emerson Birthday Book," copyright 1881. The edges are worn and the binding a bit shaky and there are signs that this was once part of a library collection although they've almost faded away.

I have never held a more beautiful book.

I had talked to her on a day I was feeling down and she had gone to this volume and marked a particular page before loaning me the book.

It was marked with her coffee punch card. (She must really trust me. Either that or she knows too well that I'm not a coffee drinker.) It's dated May 5 and reads

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain. The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact..." -Progress of Culture

Aaahh...