Jordan's post brought back a memory for me. I have some books that I read every year. My longest standing tradition, Kahilil Gibran's "TheProphet".
It was given to me when I was a young teen, I looked at it briefly and I set it on a shelf. I hated reading in school and didn't really enjoy reading until I was about 35 but I did read on rare occasion when I was younger. On one of those occasions, a planned "Lazy Day" when I was 17 I got up, made breakfast and went back to bed with my tray and a pile of books, pencils and paper grabbed off that shelf. It was a slim book with under 100 pages, I decided to give it a go. A few hours later I had finished the book and was profoundly affect, I was also very surprised by that.
The book had been there for years, how could something I had laying around for years touch me so deeply now when it didn't even interest me when I had gotten it. That was 32 years ago, I am profoundly affected every time I read that book and because of that book I have looked for and found others that have become a part of my evolving life.
"Divine World" Sketch in Pencil
by Kahlil Gibran
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